Abstract
This study proposes an alternative approach in housing environment design drawn from recent ethnomethodological developments in sociology, pedagogy, and cognitive science.
Though it was assumed as a “social fact” that the roles of client and specialist differ, and that this difference was an effect of institutional structures or rules, it now becomes possible to think the other way by ethnomethodology, and see how asymmetries are produced in and through the details of client' and specialist' situated interactions.
The role relation between the client and the specialist in design action is constituted through the sequence construction of conversation, and the contents of housing environment design develop through the customary regulation and restriction in conversation.
