From Care for Design to Becoming Matters: New Perspectives for the Development of Socio-technical Systems

Federico Cabitza () and Angela Locoro ()
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Federico Cabitza: Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca
Angela Locoro: Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca

A chapter in Digitally Supported Innovation, 2016, pp 113-127 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we start by deconstructing the widely-mentioned concept of care in the IS literature, to unveil its inherent shortcomings and ambiguities, and find opportunities to go beyond it while preserving its value for the development of better socio-technical systems. We find an important strand in the feminist studies tradition, and in particular in the contributions related to the so called “new materialism”. Notwithstanding their differences, these contrarian and often neglected voices point to the importance of relational thinking and material engagement with our technological objects. For this reason, in continuing the path indicated by Ciborra with his idea of care, we advocate a new shift from this step to the next one, where becoming matters more than being, and the caring about matter is more important than design abstractions.

Keywords: Care in design; Socio-technical systems; Feminine; New materialism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40265-9_8

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