ABSTRACT
This final chapter explores some points of possible change in the material-discursive entanglement called technology. It starts at the assumption that one can manipulate discourse or materiality to agitate for change. An example of conscious change to a discourse is the switch from hymen to vaginal corona, here refracted through the marketing of a menstrual cup to show understandings and values attributed to the hymen or vaginal coronal in the USA and Sweden. The chapter also presents a case of norm-critical design, the Androchair, which is a male version of a gynaecological chair. In the Androchair, the materiality of the technology is consciously manipulated to make tangible the values and norms that had been part of the original gynaecology chair design. The chapter then ends with an example of a norm-creative design for a new gynaecological chair. This chapter shows how manipulating the discursive or the material can be motivated by the desire to enact positive social change, thus emphasizing the usefulness of refraction as a method to make visible the norms and values of discourses entangled in our material world.
