Design - re-assembling form

I am half way through Latour's 'Reassembling the social', motivated by Mette Eriksen, who told me that Latour's way of seeing if and how things ask other intermediaries to become actors by asking them to do stuff is fruitfull in design. A different take than that of affordances and that of Krippendorf. I am still waiting for the clue, but I feel that my reading makes me appreciate my habit of listening to the voices of things, cultivated throughout childhood, and initially inspired by H.C. Andersen's fairytales.