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Aditya Dev Sood: Designing Shared Meaning
Delhi, December 2008: When early this century the Doors of Perception conference moved to India during the Indian dot com hype in Bangalore, it was Aditya Dev Sood who was our host. Being one of the
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Founder and CEO of the Center for Knowledge Society, Bangalore & Delhi

Dr. Sood frequently speaks and writes on technology, design and society in academic, industry and public forums. With foundational training in Architecture and Critical Theory from the University of
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Aditya Dev Sood argues that a user is someone who is aware of the instrumentality of his or her actions with objects and systems with which he or she interacts. This is distinct from interactions
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The technological systems that humans have developed in the last 80,000 years have been possible by space-time and the material properties of the chemicals compounds on planet earth.
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When handling technology or other artefacts, users need to be aware that their actions will have a determinative set of consequences. This is guided by a kind of presupposition of a stable physical
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Healthy organizations ensure that user-centred thinking exists within the community of engineers, within the sales group, within the strategy group and not just in one part of the organization. The
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Full transcript including film fragments you find at: http://www.systemsdesign.tbm.tudelft.nl/witness
Hereunder the transcript in text.
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