Framework of emergence: from chain of value to value constellation. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Luján Escalante, Maria Alejandra
• Is Part Of: CoDesign. Volume 15:Issue 1(2019)
• Page Start: 59
• Page End: 74
• Publication Date: 2019-01-02
• Subjects: Generative differentiation -- catalytic encounter -- Barad -- Simondon -- co-design axiology -- value constellation; Design -- Periodicals; Communication in design -- Periodicals; Artistic collaboration -- Periodicals; 745.2
• DOI: 10.1080/15710882.2018.1563616
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1571-0882

Abstract

ABSTRACT: For academic design programmes and research councils, finding mechanisms to measure impact and valuate co-design research projects is very difficult. The metric parameters – number of attendees, volume, shape, length – have shown to be insufficient. The subject matter, the subjects and matters, do not easily fit within these parameters, which fail to translate the value of a 'constellation of affections' that emerge throughout co-design processes. Emphasis on quantifiable impact derives from particular ways of understanding production, reproduction, and dissemination of knowledge. This paper understands academic design programmes as a technology to discuss axiology in co-design practices. This paper re-configures a techno-logic of value; from chain of value to value constellation, intersecting a co-design case study with readings of Simondon's philosophy of technology and Barad's agential realism. Ageing Playfully was a knowledge exchange project from The Creative Exchange programme, that involved people living with dementia and their caregivers co-designing interventions to boost mobility and well-being. At the core, this paper, explores an axiological move that informs a framework of emergence, a way of thinking in methods to account for the value of co-design as site of emergence.