heavy emotional stuff
going over these articles again I found one thing that I am confused about. While I enjoy and happily agree with and embrace notions such as complex engagement, strangeness, value-sensitive, and engaging and being engaged in an ongoing process of reflecting, designing, idea generating, creating,..., I am not sure what to think of the "designing for an emotional climate" - "the information we want to portray, emotional climate, is qualitative, ambiguous, and nondiscrete." Yup makes sense I would say - however compared to what Marisa mentioned earlier about the other systems, that they shared more than the actual strategies, the related system design, miro doesn't speak to me. I understand the intentions, I like the idea with the survey and emotional journals, but I am not quite sure how that all comes together in the reflection of an emotional climate. I am wondering then, when do system designs and when do strategies speak to us? I would like to see them as a complementary system - one won't work without the other. I liked what comes after the description of Miro: the whole design process drew attention to the affect and engaged in discussions and reflections.
And again - the miro system, maybe exactly because I didn't like it that much when I first read about it (especially compared to the other design ideas which I found really interesting), it made me think a lot, it made me mad and frustrated, and consequently kinda heavy emotionally involved - probably more than the other designs that I quickly embraces as 'hey cool idea'...