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Speculative Design as Thought Experiment [PDF]
Speculative design is a subsidiary field of critical design practice. It generally involves developing scenarios based on a central object, often a prototype.
Laura Barendregt, Nora S. Vaage
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Teaching speculative design [PDF]
Abstract Speculative design is an emerging form of critical material engagement with possible futures. Designers working speculatively call attention to current and future sociotechnical dilemmas, and aim to provoke debate about the moral, political and ethical implications of sociotechnical innovation.
Maria Luce Lupetti, Roy Bendor
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Adventure Mode: A Speculative Rideshare Design [PDF]
Most smart city projections presume efficiency, predictability, and control as core design principles for smart transportation. Adventure Mode is a speculative design proposal developed as part of a research project with a major automotive company that ...
Stephanie Sherman +3 more
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Be provoking. Schooling critical and speculative designers
Designing the provocation is a powerful strategy to jump from denouncing to generating actions and behaviors of a critical and speculative nature in design students.
Natalia Pérez-Orrego +3 more
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Speculative design is widely used in research contexts across multiple disciplines, emphasising problem-finding over problem-solving, and involves methods for exploring possibilities that challenge ingrained assumptions. This systematic literature review
David Cardenas Cordova +2 more
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Project Review: ‘Making Room for Abolition’, by Lauren Williams
This review positions Lauren Williams’ installation ‘Making Room for Abolition’, shown in ‘Monolith’ at Red Bull Arts in Detroit, as a speculative design project that presents a two-fold critique: one directed at US society and the other, at speculative
Aggie Toppins
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Speculation and the Design of Development [PDF]
This paper examines the role of technoscientific speculation in large-scale development projects in postcolonial spaces, building on recent work in STS, design research, and postcolonial studies in and beyond CSCW. We analyze two historical cases of technology-infused development projects in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and in ...
Phoebe Sengers +2 more
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Designing Speculative Civics [PDF]
As human computer interaction design research continues to expand domains, civics is emerging as an important subject through which to explore how computation shapes our public lives. In this paper we present and reflect upon a series of research through design (RtD) projects that investigate speculative civic contexts.
Carl F. DiSalvo +2 more
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The Ultimate Measure of Success for Speculative Design is to Disappear Completely
In this paper, we discuss how the increasing prevalence of Speculative Design in educational, research and commercial contexts may reflect and nurture a challenge to the dominance of ‘scientism’.
Joseph Lindley, David Philip Green
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Re-Entangling Design and Science Fiction: The Case of Daleko
The present article discusses how speculative design relates to technoscientific extrapolation, an important science fiction feature, to plan for potential scenarios and prototype viable models of futurity.
Eduardo Harry Luersen
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