Reconfiguring Human-centred Design of Technology as a Technohuman Intervention

Abstract

Human-centred design has been conceptualised as the simultaneous splitting and synthesising of the human and the technology, for the purpose of reconfiguring orders and positions of people and things within organisational innovation practices. Describing this function of design as an intervention, the paper makes visible the designer subject position being enacted as the mediating of different knowledges within the technohuman designer body. Using these insights into design practices, a reconceptionalisation is proposed, away from the current individual designerly agency of the technohuman designer, towards an intervention through collaborative technohuman reconfiguration by design.