“Interplay of Scripts and Resistance in a Participatory Workshop” presented by Kocaballi, Gemeinboeck, Saunders, Dong and Loke

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• ISEA2013: 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Interplay of Scripts and Resistance in a Participatory Workshop

• A. Baki Kocaballi
• Petra Gemeinboeck
• Rob Saunders
• Andy Dong
• Lian Loke

• Keywords: Codesign, workshop, scripts, constraints, agency, Actor-Network Theory
  The article reports on a participatory workshop in which, we were faced with two different types of resistance. We employ the notion of scripts to describe how this resistance emerged. On the one hand, we explain how a weak script caused distrust of the workshop rationale, while on the other, we explain how a strong script rendered the technological materials of the workshop useless and led to termination of the activity. We suggest that structuring workshops according to the notion of scripts may prove a useful way of exercising and learning from resistance and expanding our territory of exploration.

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