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Patterns of Practice - Interdisciplinary Negotiation of Cultural Complexity through Practice-Based Methods in Informatics

Heidt, Michael B.

Following the principle of knowing through making, this thesis discusses development and application of a practice-based methodology for construction of digital artefacts within cultural contexts. It addresses the epistemological diversity and complexity inhering within interdisciplinary projects, suggesting methodological devices able to navigate the variegated disciplinary landscape present within respective development projects. The conceptual pair complexity/complication acts as theoretical point of reference in order to frame mediations between the formal material of computer code and physically embodied practice in exhibition spaces. Inquiries conducted unfold poietically, in the mode of concrete construction of interactive artefacts. Interactive biographies, tangible tabletops, and collage generators are among the devices developed and deployed. Digital materiality emerges as a key category during the research process, pointing towards productive ambivalences at play within joint practices of digital making.

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@phdthesis{doi:10.17170/kobra-202301047292,
  author    ={Heidt, Michael B.},
  title    ={Patterns of Practice - Interdisciplinary Negotiation of Cultural Complexity through Practice-Based Methods in Informatics},
  keywords ={004 and 300 and 700 and Informatik and Komplexität and Kultur and Digitalisierung and Prototyping and Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation and Actor-Network-Theory and Gestaltung and Artefakt},
  copyright  ={https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/},
  language ={en},
  school={Kassel, Universität Kassel, Fachbereich Elektrotechnik / Informatiik},
  year   ={2022}
}