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A bit later Janne outlined what had happened to their two pots (P 206–207):
J: The Nurmesniemi pot has rather shifted into less frequent use. It’s
because, I mean, it wasn’t a conscious decision, thinking that “that
item has been there long enough now, it’s time for something else in
its place”. It just isn’t that kind of (pause) In relation to this renovation,
it [the pot] moved into some box and then when we got the kitchen
up and running, for some reason this it was clear pot that remained.
And the situation hasn’t changed. The way it often goes, that a person
doesn’t care to think all the time about all the possible issues (laughs)
And most issues just fade into the background and are forgotten.
( Janne 05 480-487)
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After having heard and read several similar kinds of stories that things just
happen to be this or that way, without conscious, overall planning or complete
control over the result, I became interested in looking more closely at these
stories and realised that the stories were mostly about a mature integration
of the design within the households. The people in the study were not talking
about new items entering the home, but instead they were talking about what
it was like to live with things that had been in their possession for a long time,
sometimes for years or even decades. Nevertheless, the items had not become
stable, near invisible fragments of self-evident daily routines. I started to wonder
whether appropriating design should be understood differently than how
the existing domestication literature defines the domestication of technologies
and media. According to it, technology and media objects become integrated
into a household’s temporal and spatial organisation (Silverstone 2006
234–235); but the framework emphasises the domestication of new objects. For
example, Roger Silverstone writes that,
Objectification and incorporation are the strategies, or maybe, if one is to be
true to de Certeau, the tactics, of domestication. Objectification and incorporation
involve placing and timing. The complexities and instabilities of
domestic life, both well established and essentially fragile, move to meet the
new arrival. (ibid. 234)
This is understandable because the studies on domestication are most often
about technologies and researchers have found that a perfectly domesticated
product becomes invisible – that is, it has become so familiar that one does not
pay attention to it: