Co-shaping Temporality: Mediating Time through an Interactive Hourglass
Armi Behzad · Designing Interactive Systems Conference · 2023
With the constant development of new and fast-paced technologies, there can be a disconnection between our perception of time and the actualization of time. Current technologies mediate and monetize the construct of time which is constantly enforced upon us as experiences of acceleration, productivity, and linear progression as its dominant purpose. This design research takes a postphenomenological view by exploring the mediation of time through the speculative design of an interactive hourglass. The work investigates through the hourglass the possibility of co-shaping temporality and possible reframing of the perceived standards of time. This investigation is intended to help understand potential multiplicities in the mediation of time while also exploring other possible human-artifact-world relations.