MP 2012 - International Workshop on Materiality for Participation

Complex mediation structures in new and evolving fields of IT-use, liquefy the distinction between tool and material. Tools turn into materials, and objects of interest become instrumental mediators in the process of developing innovative use of software and in reshaping software itself. By changing perspective from triadic subject-instrument-object mediation to complex meditational structures, an analytical sensitivity for the evolving material qualities of software in use is opened. The goal of the workshop is to inspire and further discussions and new perspectives in the intersection between understanding the materiality of computing technologies and notions of participation in use and in design.