‘Does this compromise your design?’ Socially Producing a Design Concept in Talk-in-Interaction*

This chapter explores how a design concept was interactionally produced in the talk-in-interaction between an architect and two client representatives. Its intention is to develop our understanding of some actions and practices used to negotiate the properties of a design and interactions in design team meeting settings more generally. In the study described some differences were observed between the properties of the design concept in comparison with the design ideas discussed in conversation. A provisional and qualified analogy is made between the design concept and properties of material objects in studies of science, technology and society.