The Spaces Between: Using Play to Situate the Social and the Technical in a Single Space.

My work situates play as a space where social and technical spaces collide. By engaging play as a space of convergence, it is possible to observe social and technical objects concurrently without aggregation, reduction, or supposition. I am a 4th year PhD Candidate in the midst of data-gathering. The driving force for my research begins with the imbalance of inquiry afforded to social and technical spaces as they relate to the design of socio-technical systems. My research will provide designers and researchers a means through which to dispense with forcefully separated social and technical spaces; thus allowing more complexity and simplicity in design.