4/30&5/2 "computer-aid"

key-point
every digital media technology has an architecture using diagrams to compare physical architectures with digital architectures

CSCW

computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) is a field of research and design. (ex: CAD/CAM, ABB Powerwall, Drug Design)

Winograd and Flores

Winograd and Flores present a methodology for CSCW analysis and design. This methodology is commonly known as the “language/action” perspective.

design as conversation construction

any organization is constituted as a network of recurrent conversations (ex: issue, topic, theme…)
conversations are linked in regular patterns of triggering and breakdown (ex: next issues…)
in creating tools we are designing new conversations and connections (ex: ways, methods, rules…)
computers are a tool for conducting the network of conversations (ex: how-to, clues ….)

Technologies embody social, political, cultural, economic and philosophical ideas and relationships.

Every digital media technology has an architecture that can be used to transform work, play and governance.

physical architecture and digital architecture

For example, The Social Logic of Space(1990)
by Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson