Designing for Creative Making in the Everyday Environment (original) (raw)

2021, Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

The development of communication and information technology has complicated the composition of space and place in the modern era, impacting human cognition and information interaction. To capture the changing nature of the information environment, I investigate information practice of arts and crafts hobbyists and their interaction with space and place. My dissertation project is grounded upon the literature on space and place in the broad information science field, regarding space and place both as meaningful social products that serve more than passive containers. Using diary studies and individual interviews, I study the adult hobbyist community without limiting the scope of discussion on where making may take place. In particular, I focus on the character of everyday space-a space that is not dedicated to support making-and how people approach and adapt to it during the actual making process. My goal is to gain a holistic understanding of spatiality by probing its influence on creative making. The findings are expected to shed new light on the design of computing technology to afford the making practice in everyday life.

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