Book Chapter: Experience as Excursion: A Note towards a Metaphysics of Design Thinking

Co-authored with Michael Shanks

Published: 2014, Bloomsbury

Theorises experience as distributed agency across people, things and environments, proposing a relational and processual understanding of experience and design. The chapter contributes a philosophical grounding for experiential and performative approaches to design and inquiry. 

Focusing on flux and flow, kinetics and dynamics make it possible to account for experience as on-going processes of becoming.  

Open access here: https://www.academia.edu/164803280/Experience_as_Excursion_A_Note_towards_a_Metaphysics_of_Design_Thinking

Svabo, C., & Shanks, M. (2014). Experience as Excursion: A Note towards a Metaphysics of Design Thinking. In P. Benz (Ed.), Experience Design: Concepts and Case Studies (pp. 23-32). Bloomsbury Academic. http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/experience-design-9781472569394/