Boundary Troubles: Here, There, Design, Make, Research

Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, Lilly Irani, Silvia Lindtner, Kaiton Williams, John Zimmerman

Abstract: We stage a dialogue between two areas of growing interest in HCI: making cultures and research through design. Both have only recently gained momentum, and so each of their proponents are demarcating--often too sharply--who and what is to be included in their programs to legitimate their work as a concern of and contribution to HCI. Drawing from diverse engagements with making and research through design, the panelists and discussant will explore positions concerning the relationship between research, design, and making. An underlying goal of the panel is to revisit the inclusionary and exclusionary impulses central to the necessary activities of research agenda formation, theory and methodology construction, and legitimation for both making and research through design.