Video

Abstract

Ideally, the following should have been presented in video form, but the submission requirements dictated printed text. The experience of the video itself would have conveyed the force of the argument we're making in a direct visceral way that the process of reading ultimately cannot.We use video to support design. By design, we (the Design and Media Spaces Area at Xerox PARC) mean the creation of the new, whether it is architecture, painting, or engineering. We believe that design is a social activity--the interactions of individuals within a group and the relation of groups to one another. Another way we express this point of view is to say design is the social construction of a technical reality. We seek to improve design processes by enabling better communications within the design process.