In Praise of Shadows: Sensibility and Somaesthetic Appreciation for Shadows in Interaction Design
Paper i proceeding, 2024

Wherever there is light, there is shadow — an inevitable immaterial material, with an undeniable presence in interaction gestalt. Inspired by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s book In Praise of Shadows, we report on our journey towards building a sensibility and somaesthetic appreciation for shadows physically, metaphorically, and poetically. To investigate the idea of cultivating attentiveness to shadows, we embarked on a “dérive”-inspired adventure, gathering frst-person perceptions and photographs of tables. We analysed these examples of tables and their shadows in order to inform the development of a project on interactive tables. Along with the artifact collection, we present a set of concepts, an initial prototype, and refections on our own experience in developing this sensibility. We discuss shadows as a design material and an example of a design sensibility: a skill that can be sparked, fostered, and ultimately embedded.

sensibility

somaesthetic appreciation

materiality

design methods

Författare

Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Sjoerd Hendriks

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2024

3272-3286
9798400705830 (ISBN)

2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS 2024
Copenhagen, Denmark,

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Vetenskapsrådet (VR) (2020-04918), 2021-01-01 -- 2024-12-31.

Ämneskategorier

Design

Företagsekonomi

DOI

10.1145/3643834.3660679

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