Erik Stolterman
PhD
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Information technology is increasingly becoming a natural and frequent part of many visioning and design processes in society (in architecture, urban planning, design and planning of communication systems, social systems and in infrastructural planning). Our purpose is to empirically and theoretically study the existence and importance of a changed use of technology in some, to the society, specific and important visioning and design processes.    We are studying the relations and mechanisms behind the transformation of these processes caused by a changed use of IT and especially advanced visualization techniques. The purpose of the project is to find out how new visualization techniques: (1) change designers, planners and decision makers need of competence, (2) change the way desicion makers approach complex information and design suggestions, (3) affect the outcome of societal design and planning (4) change the prevailent rhetoric and consequently also power relations, social roles and influence over these processes.

Anna Croon Fors
PhD Student
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Per-Olof  Ågren
PhD Student
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