The aim of this article is to develop a different approach to the study of the material world,
one that takes seriously the seemingly banal fact that things are constantly falling out of …

The article illustrates the potentials of an Actor-Network Theory (ANT) perspective to design.
Drawing on ANT's assumption that objects with their scripts and incorporated programs of …

Five Ways to Make Architecture Political presents an innovative pragmatist agenda that will
inspire new thinking about the politics of design and architectural practice. Moving beyond …

Installation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and
displaying such artworks implies that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with …

In contemporary art, the curator plays an important role in the production of artistic meaning
through exhibition-making. Although sociology has tended to see this work as the exercise …

In studying visual and plastic arts, social researchers tend to assume that an aesthetic object
is pre-given to a viewer who does not participate in the process of the object's becoming …

Highlights•The role of collaborative stories in framing design practice.•The management of
contrasting categories and values through discourse.•How stories represent 'value …

STS and 'aesthetic studies' share an interest in artifacts and the aim to describe and analyse
both artifacts and their agency. The present article contributes to such dialogue, first by …

Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects is a lively
investigation into ethnographic practice. Richly illustrated, it invites the reader to reflect on …

The objective of this article is to open the 'black box'of artistic production in order to describe,
in minute detail, culture in the making, that is, the process through which cultural forms grow …