Designing for the active human body in a digital–material world
Florian Mueller · 2020
This chapter offers a design-focused view on the opportunities and challenges when it comes to digital materialities and the active human body. It provides view on the role of the body in terms of digital materialities, how developments have evolved over the last couple of years and what shift in perspectives this has brought out. The chapter presents a set of our own works to demonstrate our thinking on this topic in order to set out a direction for future work with the aim of advancing the field. Then the chapter also suggests a non-separation between the active human body and the digital–material. As such, it proposes to see the body as a form of digital–material based on the findings from our ethno-graphic studies that suggest our participants often did not make a distinction between digital and bodily materiality.