http://www.themobilecity.nl/2008/01/22/mediacity-conference-weimar-the-design-of-urban-situations/ Mobile and Locative Media and Urban Culture Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:27:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.themobilecity.nl/2008/01/22/mediacity-conference-weimar-the-design-of-urban-situations/comment-page-1/#comment-70 michiel Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:18:54 +0000 http://www.themobilecity.nl/2008/01/22/mediacity-conference-weimar-the-design-of-urban-situations/#comment-70 Great post Martijn! A small comment on your last passage: in Science and Technology Studies (STS), with regard to this phenomenon of technologies that by design are pre-inscribed with all sorts of meaning and values, it is said that technologies are 'scripted'. A well-known example is how razors for women are pink and have only one button (on-off), stemming from the idea that most women don't care about technology and/or find it complicated, while razors for men are black, with shiny elements, have multiple buttons that enable men to master and control the technology. The process of appropriation by users/consumers has been called 'domestication' (Silverstone & Haddon 1996). This refers to the sense of taming the initial 'wildness' and undirectedness of technologies into something you can use in your everyday life. It also refers to the - then current thought - that technologies are mostly brought in and used within a domestic context. All this can be, and is, perfectly applicable to the construction of spaces and situations. Great post Martijn! A small comment on your last passage: in Science and Technology Studies (STS), with regard to this phenomenon of technologies that by design are pre-inscribed with all sorts of meaning and values, it is said that technologies are ‘scripted’. A well-known example is how razors for women are pink and have only one button (on-off), stemming from the idea that most women don’t care about technology and/or find it complicated, while razors for men are black, with shiny elements, have multiple buttons that enable men to master and control the technology.
The process of appropriation by users/consumers has been called ‘domestication’ (Silverstone & Haddon 1996). This refers to the sense of taming the initial ‘wildness’ and undirectedness of technologies into something you can use in your everyday life. It also refers to the – then current thought – that technologies are mostly brought in and used within a domestic context.
All this can be, and is, perfectly applicable to the construction of spaces and situations.

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