This work consisted of a design philosophy correspondence where first a philosophy paper was analyzed and discussed and used as inspiration to design in the theme of a

vending machine. These steps were taken three times after one another where

insights from the designing, feedback from peers and teachers, and the papers

helped shape in total three designs.

The exercise started with the reading of Dewey where he talks about the stimulus and response model and the openness in interaction. Taking inspiration from this paper and the context of a vending machine we designed a walking coffee machine with an interesting pattern of interaction, to create this openness and play with stimulus and response.

The next reading was Oyama and the non-duality of nature and nurture, the continuity and interconnectivity between knowing what is real and acting in this reality. We iterated more on openness and how something should be closed in a certain way to become open to interact with by playing with the kind of handles you give to users of a design. For this we designed an open drawing interaction.

The final reading of van Dijk described the continuation of stimulus and response, or

transaction/interaction, in combination with nature, or environment/situatedness,

influences each other and the material world. In the design we focused on the sharing of knowledge between user and system which continues the material world, is valuable to both system and user, and both aspects come out changed.