Design as Mediator 35 eastern philosophy of examining experience, what the eastern philosophers called mindfulness, which refers to awareness of being in the here and now. Their – at the time – unique aim was to build a bridge that links eastern philosophy and the western tradition of science, spanning human experience and cognitive science, by applyingthe concept of non-self and non-dualismthat grew out of mindfulness. In the domain of neuroscience, it is well known that there are functional asym- metries between the human cerebral cortices. Meinard Simon Du Pui suggested as far backas1780thatmankindhasadoublebrainwithadoublemind,whathecalled HomoDuplex(Taylor2008).Inhis1981NobellectureRogerSperrycommented: :::The same individual can be observed to employ consistently one or the other of two distinct forms of mental approach and strategy, much like two different people, depending on whether the left or right hemisphere is in use. (http://nobelprize.org, 1981) The neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor (2008), writing about her own experience of having a stroke, emphasises the importance of shifting from unbalanced brain functions towards a more correct balance. She describes the left- and right-brain functions with the terms doing-consciousness and being-consciousness. According to her, the left-brain can be characterized as the doing-consciousness that is trained to perceive oneself as a solid thing, separate from others, while the right brain presidesoverthebeing-consciousnessthatperceivesthewholeandrelishesanatural state of flowing. In western society, the left-brain has often reigned as the seat of our consciousness through linguistic, sequential, methodological, rational, and intellectual activity. But if we stay unilaterally in the left-brain, our thinking ends upbeingpredominantlyanalyticand critical, rigid and lacking flexibility. On the other hand, to the right brain, only the present moment exists by this account, and each moment is vigorous and animated with sensation. That is the momentofthenow,timelessandeternal.Rulesandregulationsdonotexist;theright brain has no ability for judging the correct or wrong way of doing something. Our right brain takes things as they are without inhibition or judgment. The exploration of the possibilities that each present moment brings is intuitive and creative. The right brain is spontaneous, carefree, and imaginative. It allows our artistic being to flow freely. The right brain, if it is dominant, gives a sense of wholeness without a self who exists as a single, solid entity separate from everything else. The right brain has an ability to perceive how everything is related, connected and shared, and how every single thing unifies as one to form the whole. The right-brain function reminds us of the characteristics of the trickster, which are amusement, ludicrousness, omnipresence, entropy, freewheeling and so on. Along with many other commentators, Taylor (2008) consistently stresses the need for creating a healthy balance between these two characters, which “enables us the ability to remain cognitively flexible enough to welcome change (right hemisphere), and yet remain concrete enough to stay a path (left hemisphere)” (p. 138). The concept of mediator/facilitator is nothing new in interaction design. In the domains of HCI, CSCW, and related contextual research such as ethnography and participatory design, the importance of mediator or facilitator has long been