![Presentation slide: Title is "Actor-Network Rings". Hows a wooden ball inside a wooden ring with clothespins attached to the ring. Text" Actor Network Theory: Highlights the complex networked relations of people and things that make up our socio-material worlds. This instrument brings attention to what humans and non-human accomplish together." Citation" Latour, B. 1982. Where are the missing masses? The sociology of a few mundane artifacts, in" Shaping Technology/Building Socity (eds) W.E. Bijker and U. Law. Cambridge: MIT Press.](https://oldsite.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/J-Sorenson-EPIC2022-150x150.png)
JESSICA SORENSON
Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark
METTE GISLEV KJÆRSGAARD
Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark
JACOB BUUR
Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark
MARY KARYDA
Department of Sociology and Environmental Economics, University of Southern Denmark
AYŞE ÖZGE AĞÇA
Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark
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While ethnographers and the data they produce already play a role in affecting industry practices, there is potential to integrate anthropological ways of seeing and knowing into a shared transdisciplinary design praxis. In a series of design research experiments, we have taken a pragmatic and playful approach to physicalizing theory. The result is a set of ‘Theory Instruments’ that transform theory into tangible interaction. Theory Instruments scaffold knowledge production...