Paper short abstract:

Retrospective discussion and reflection on creative and technological approaches in the context of digitisation/digitalisation projects and their confrontation with individuals and organisations

Paper long abstract:

The article reflects and discusses what happens when technology-based perspectives are confronted with the relevance of looking at individuals and organisations. It addresses the following questions:

What happens when design and technology are confronted with a variety of challenges in digitalisation projects stemming from the interrelation of technology, humans and organisations within the framework of clearly defined tasks - keyword digital transformation(s)?

How is the development and research design of interdisciplinary projects (pre)defined in theory, what deviations can be observed in practice, and how do we respond to this in the context of third-party-funded projects and interdisciplinary teams?

There will be a retrospective reflection on application-oriented examples from research projects on technology-focused topic . Those examples stem from experiences within two Austrian academic research transfer initiatives (digital.werk funded by BMBWF, dih.work funded by FFG), that set the goal to connect between physical and virtual "worlds" in the environment of design, craft and production, where the development of experimental approaches for application of digital methods and technologies and different scientific perspectives should go hand in hand.

In this presentation, it is intended to provide an insight into the spectrum of interdisciplinary work at the connection of digital and “real” environments, leading to first encounters with sociotechnical perspectives from STS or sociology.