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Theoretical Starting Points (outline) - Coggle Diagram
Theoretical Starting Points
(outline)
Capability Approach and TLC
How the capability approach can contribute to TLC modeling
CA and risk determination. Is femininized design less risky bc it is marketed to particular demographic? Considered 'safe' bc it'll sell? Less reward for making products more technically advanced?
Re-conceptualizing design solution principles using gender as lens for new framework
How the CA is used in engr design to improve outcome of design
Measuring functionings/capabilities rather than economic growth
Limits of social choice and technological determinism
Feminist Technoscience and Innovation [Critique of Design]
Does the feminized identity of the sewing machine change its technology innovation path?
Gender dualism in engineering (binaries) becomes masculinity and femininity
Emphasis on power structure of gender-value system and innovation
Gender stereotypes (cognitive structures of socially shared assumptions of men/women). Competence (masculine) vs social acceptance (feminine)
Women do not bring 'gender' to technological imagination. Gender has not being recognized/fully explored as source of expertise
No negotiation has taken place in engineering design and women's exclusion from the imagination of its designers as a 'relevant social group' shows how deeply gendered the nature of an innovation process can be (pg 313)
Feminist technoscience + innovation = sustainable conditions for a livable world/life for more than just privileged ppl?
Existing Technology Life Cycle Model Literature (Kaplan)
Relies on assumption that technology is generally neutral/objective
"Well Established Preferences"
Technological and scientific change is grounded in science and decontextualized whereas change is grounded in society (aka change is never neutral)
Innovation is performance and market economy driven
Design Justice Theory
View
change
as "emergent from an accountable, accessible, and collaborative" process vs as an endgame
Use design to "sustain, heal, and empower" communities in oppressive systems
Prioritize Impact on community vs intent of designer (sensitive design, human centered design)
Technologies that constitute gender-equitable social relations or favor women
Community led practices (effectuation: focuses on the controllable aspects of an unpredictable future)