Scaffolding shared imagination with tangible design

Maarten L. Smith; Sander van der Zwan; Jelle Bruineberg; Pierre D. Levy; Caroline C.M. Hummels

doi:10.1145/3430524.3440639

Scaffolding shared imagination with tangible design

Maarten L. Smith
, Sander van der Zwan
, Jelle Bruineberg
, Pierre D. Levy
, Caroline C.M. Hummels

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We follow up on a prominent line of work in which principles of embodied cognition are employed to not only account for skilled coping but also for more intellectual activities such as remembering and imagination. Imagination then, is not a reflective activity an individual does by herself, but a shared and embodied activity scaffolded by tangible design. We present a case study in which we designed a toolkit to facilitate imagining the Netherlands in 2050. We wrote speculative stories of people living in 2050 and designed an assortment of objects. We held several workshops to use the toolkit for shared imagination for our client, Rijkswaterstaat. We analyze how, in the context of the workshops, the stories and objects provided affordances for shared imagination. We thereby hope to have demonstrated that it is possible to design for more intellectual activities in a tangible and embodied way.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	TEI '21
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
Editors	Raphael Wimmer
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-8213-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3440639
Publication status	Published - 14 Feb 2021
Event	15th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Austria Duration: 14 Feb 2021 → 19 Feb 2021

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Conference	15th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2021
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Virtual, Online
Period	14/02/21 → 19/02/21

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Smith, ML, van der Zwan, S, Bruineberg, J, Levy, PD & Hummels, CCM 2021, Scaffolding shared imagination with tangible design. in R Wimmer (ed.), TEI '21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction., 20, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, 15th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2021, Virtual, Online, Austria, 14/02/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3440639

Scaffolding shared imagination with tangible design. / Smith, Maarten L.; van der Zwan, Sander; Bruineberg, Jelle et al.
TEI '21: Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. ed. / Raphael Wimmer. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2021. 20.

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