Yarn as a Means to Give Form to Entanglements of Regulation, Design and Sustainability PracticesShow others and affiliations
Number of Authors: 52025 (English)In: DIS '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference / [ed] Nuno Jardim Nunes; Valentina Nisi; Ian Oakley; Qian Yang; Clement Zheng, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025, p. 2534-2548Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
When designing with and for complex sustainability processes like waste management, it is crucial to understand digital technologies as entangled with broader systemic factors, including physical infrastructures and regulatory instruments. Within the case of organic household waste management, this pictorial aims at making such relations visible through design methods. We have used yarn to represent the different threads of these entanglements and defined specific configurations: tangles, knots, loose ends, and frayed threads. We discuss how the design practice of giving form to these entanglements can make complex relations between digital technology, infrastructures, and regulatory instruments more visible and actionable for HCI, and explore how digital technologies are – and can be – made to work within them.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025. p. 2534-2548
Keywords [en]
Entanglement design, Policy, Regulation, Sustainability, Waste Management
National Category
Design Human Computer Interaction
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-249797DOI: 10.1145/3715336.3735410ISI: 001555741000150Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105020672709OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-249797DiVA, id: diva2:2016556
Conference
DIS '25: Designing Interactive Systems Conference Madeira Portugal July 5 - 9, 2025.
2025-11-262025-11-262026-03-25Bibliographically approved