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Inappropriate lunch choices

January 25 12

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I’m getting the feeling that salad isn’t the lunch of choice here at Salford Uni cafeteria. The surrounding trays are covered with chips, something that looks like a savory donut, and steak. And gravy. Lotsa.
But omg, I think these were the first fresh veges I’ve eaten in about [...]

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#goffman ch1 (cont): Reality & Contrivance – performative command of an idiom

December 11 11

These ideas are resonating with how I'm framing design performance. Led by an observation that while we (designers) will contrive situations, we're more than often very conscious of the fact that any whiff of contrivance will put our participants/colleagues/co-designers off.

The challenge of participatory approaches, imho, can be well described using the terms Goffman builds with [...]

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#goffman ch1 (cont) Dramatic Realization: impressing significance & the dilemma of expression vs action

December 7 11

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There’s a lot in this that applies to the way I’m looking at design. I’m reminded of critical incidents in workshops, where you find yourself doing things that are more about impressing your significance on others: why they’re working with a designer, what it is that design [...]