{"id":4562,"date":"2021-09-27T15:59:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T19:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/?p=4562"},"modified":"2021-09-27T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T20:02:01","slug":"animism-in-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/2021\/09\/27\/animism-in-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Animism in Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their article <em>Animistic Design: How to Reimagine Digital Interaction Between the Human and the Nonhuman,<\/em> Betti Marenko and Philip van Allen suggest that uncertainty can add value to interactions with objects, prototypes, other humans, data, and things. \u201cAnimistic design, which provides a sense of intention, attitude, point of view, goals and provocation, aspires to extend people\u2019s creative thinking into a digitally augmented, tangible world and make complexity and ambiguity useful.\u201d As ubiquitous computing and IoT connected devices become increasingly present, these kinds of approaches may prove to be instrumental in removing the \u201cblack box\u201d element of such technological systems. Animistic design could also provide a more meaningful connection with \u201cthings\u201d whose functions may not be readily apparent to us today. It makes me wonder&#8230; what kinds of information could we begin to visualize through these unpredictable interactions, and how would this challenge our current paradigms?<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14626268.2016.1145127\">Animistic Design: How to Reimagine Digital Interaction Between the Human and the Nonhuman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking about new forms of interaction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":4590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[345],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-guess","entry-card--square"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/YesAnd1-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86O3z-1bA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4596,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions\/4596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}