@inbook{5ebc9a25bf3b4ae6ade163655c1b6ffa,
title = "Designing as Middle Ground",
abstract = "The theoretical background in this chapter is science and technology studies and actor network theory, enabling investigation of heterogeneity, agency and perfor-mative effects through {\textquoteleft}symmetric{\textquoteright} analysis. The concept of design is defined as being imaginative and mindful to a number of actors in a network of humans and non-humans, highlighting that design objects and the designer as an authority are constructed throughout this endeavour. The illustrative case example is drawn from product development in a rubber valve factory in Jutland in Denmark. The key contribution to a general core of design research is an articulation of design activity taking place as a middle ground and as an intermixture between a {\textquoteleft}scientific{\textquoteright} regime of knowledge transfer and a capital {\textquoteleft}D{\textquoteright} {\textquoteleft}Designerly{\textquoteright} regime of authoring. ",
author = "Nickelsen, {Niels Christian} and Thomas Binder",
year = "2010",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0-415-57263",
series = "Design/Art/Sociology",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "33--48",
editor = "Jesper Simonsen and B{\ae}renholdt, {J{\o}rgen Ole } and B{\"u}scher, {Monika } and {Damm Scheuer}, {John }",
booktitle = "Design Research",
}