Vital Media Making, Design, and Expression for Humans and Other Materials

• Main Author: Nitsche, Michael (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Advertising & society; Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Impact of science & technology on society; Media studies; design; media design; interaction design; HCI; performance; craft; digital media; digital folk; new materialism; material culture; hybrid craft; digital performance
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

A proposal for a new media design to balance the contributions of humans and materials in the world they share. How can media design support a balance between our needs for self-expression and the material needs of the world we are part of? What criteria define a sustainable media ecology? In Vital...