Miller2025
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Miller2025 |
| Author(s) | Timothy Miller |
| Title | Technical breakdown: breaching experiment-workshops in university lectures |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Breaching experiments, Breaching experiment-workshops, Co-design, Ethnomethodology, Participatory design, Reflexive methodology, In press |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts |
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| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1080/15710882.2025.2561984 |
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Abstract
This article explores the methodological design of breaching experiments, originally introduced in ethnomethodology as pedagogical tools for examining the maintenance of social order. Building on this tradition, I introduce a typology of breaching experiments and the idea of breaching experiment-workshops: collaborative, negotiated interventions that uncover how technical devices, and sociotechnical expectations mediate university lectures. Drawing on observations with two lecturers and subsequent efforts to design interventions in their teaching practices, I show how breaching experiment-workshops can surface the entangled roles of technology, disciplinary norms, and student expectations even when the breaches remain hypothetical. I argue that breaching experiment-workshops offer a valuable method for design researchers investigating human-technology relations by extending breaching into participatory, context-sensitive, and reflective co-design practices.
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