期刊名称：Acta Universitatis Sapientiae : Social Analysis
印刷版ISSN：2069-7449
电子版ISSN：2248-0854
出版年度：2015
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：29-39
出版社：Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Scientia Publishing House
摘要：Technology is a driving force in development as well as is the answer to challenges for development. In evaluating technology, there is usually a strong focus on functionality, efficiency in relation to some given task or problem, where the issue of usability is central. Slow Technology as an agenda for design and technology development is in one way the opposite of this, saying things could be different. Instead of looking for efficiency with respect to solving some task, we could look for slowness in use, turning things upside down. One way to understand the notion of slow technology is that it suggests a turn in the technology perspective. We do not put the main focus on what technology can be used for but on what it means to use it, to master it, how it expresses itself in use. Slow technology focuses on envelopment rather than development, the term now used in a lightly different meaning than in military tactics theory or data envelopment analysis. It is a matter of envelopment for deep understanding rather than fast development for use. If we usually think of technology in terms of techniques and methods we use to reach certain objectives, to do certain things, technology envelopment turns technology into a technical and methodological locale we encircle exploring, mapping out an expressional landscape
关键词：slow technology; philosophy of technology; design critique; critical design
