“More than just Space”: Designing to Support Assemblage in Virtual Creative Hubs

TY - GEN

T1 - “More than just Space”

T2 - ACM DIS Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2018

AU - Luik, Jandy Edipson

AU - Ng, Jenna Pei-Suin

AU - Hook, Jonathan David

N1 - © Authors 2018

PY - 2018/6/8

Y1 - 2018/6/8

N2 - This paper aims to understand interactions at creative hubs, and how this understanding can be used to inform the design of virtual creative hubs – i.e., social-technical infrastructures that support hub-like interactions amongst people who aren’t spatially or temporally co-located. We present findings from a qualitative field study in UK creative hubs, in which we conducted seventeen observations and ten interviews in three sites. Our findings reveal a range of key themes that define interactions within creative hubs: smallness of teams; neutrality of the hubs; value of the infrastructure; activities and events; experience sharing; and community values and rules. These interactions together form a network and elements that influence one another to make a creative hub more than just physical space. We employ the concept of Assemblage introduced by Deleuze and Guattari to explore this network of interactions and, in doing so, reveal implications for the design of virtual creative hubs that seek to replicate them.

AB - This paper aims to understand interactions at creative hubs, and how this understanding can be used to inform the design of virtual creative hubs – i.e., social-technical infrastructures that support hub-like interactions amongst people who aren’t spatially or temporally co-located. We present findings from a qualitative field study in UK creative hubs, in which we conducted seventeen observations and ten interviews in three sites. Our findings reveal a range of key themes that define interactions within creative hubs: smallness of teams; neutrality of the hubs; value of the infrastructure; activities and events; experience sharing; and community values and rules. These interactions together form a network and elements that influence one another to make a creative hub more than just physical space. We employ the concept of Assemblage introduced by Deleuze and Guattari to explore this network of interactions and, in doing so, reveal implications for the design of virtual creative hubs that seek to replicate them.

KW - Assemblage

KW - Creative hub

KW - Form of content and expression

KW - Informing design

KW - Interactions

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85054005151&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3196709.3196758

DO - 10.1145/3196709.3196758

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 9781450351980

T3 - ACM Proceedings

SP - 1269

EP - 1282

BT - DIS 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference

PB - ACM

Y2 - 9 June 2018 through 13 June 2018

ER -