In MeAT research we are lead by a philosophical discourse centred about embodied interaction. We imagine and make theoretical and practical experiments that explore how technology is enacted as a component of the soma. We also develop strategies for the implementation of enactive technologies and collaborate in our research withTranstechnology : University of Plymouth.
We believe that too much interaction design research has taken a philosophical and theoretical stance that analyses digitally driven systems by means of a rather narrow understanding of sociological or psychological determinants. MeAT’s alternative approach is to seek a revisionist metadesign that is sufficiently subtle in its terms to engage with the open complexity of future discussions of the distributed and enacted human.
We are particularly interested in the theoretical anticipation and design and implementation of new human experiences which are as real, and as integrative, as those which we take to be a natural evolutionary inheritance. We seek to create the means through design for people to participate in the benefits of technology free from the determining constraints of orthodox systems.
