Toward a Dialogical Understanding of Objects in Subjective Experience and Social Practices

This article is a discussion of two articles, one by Sanchez and Larrain (2023) that examines the role of objects in the work of teachers, and the other by Toval-Gajardo et al. (2023) that studies the experience of artists in their world. Both articles share a dialogical understanding of the phenomena at hand. In this article, I first summarize the two articles, before considering them as complementing each other: Together, they may help sketch a psychology of the trajectory of objects, at the junction of the experience of designers, and users. As such, they can be seen as participating in the same analytical framework. To reflect back on this theoretical proposition, I then propose to apply it to a further empirical case.