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Speculative Design as Thought Experiment

open access: yesShe Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation, 2021
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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Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper introduces “infrastructural speculations,” an orientation toward speculative design that considers the complex and long-lived relationships of technologies with broader systems, beyond moments of immediate invention and design.
Bennett Cynthia L.   +48 more
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Re-Entangling Design and Science Fiction: The Case of Daleko

open access: yesInternational Journal of Film and Media Arts, 2021
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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Eliciting Alternative Economic Futures with Working-Class Detroiters: Centering Afrofuturism in Speculative Design

open access: yesConference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2023
Economic crises such as the global recession and financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 and the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, have elevated new forms of economic cooperation.
Tawanna R. Dillahunt   +2 more
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Youth as pattern makers for racial justice: How speculative design pedagogy in science can promote restorative futures through radical care practices

open access: yesThe Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2023
Background We examine the development of youth sociopolitical consciousness and agency in an eighth-grade science classroom as students of color engage in critical speculative design activities, exploring the multi-scalar, racial realities and ...
Kathleen Arada, A. Sánchez, P. Bell
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Exploring the Reflective Space of AI Narratives Through Speculative Design in Japan and Germany

open access: yesConference on Information Technology for Social Good, 2023
This research aims at exploring how culture-specific narratives influence the imagination of future AI technology. Design professionals play a crucial role in this research context as they not only take part in the development of technology applications ...
Michel Hohendanner   +3 more
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Designing Futures with Pasts

open access: yesEAR, 2022
The impending climate catastrophe gives rise to an increased environmental awareness among many designers, who direct their work towards the paradigm of sustainability. While designing with an ‘ecological lens’ is necessarily oriented towards the future,
Christoph Tochtrop, Dustin Jessen
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Social dreaming together: A critical exploration of participatory speculative design

open access: yesParticipatory Design Conference, 2022
While often seen as an elitist practice found only in artistic and academic circles, speculative design has grown in popularity and is now practiced in more diverse contexts and with a variety of participants.
Pedro Gil Farias   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Notes for an Island

open access: yesArchitecture Image Studies Scientific Journal, 2021
This text offers a writerly experiment aimed at developing a possible method of critical speculative fiction. The subject is an imaginary island modelled on the Cycladic island of Amorgos, Greece, which is depicted here as an all-encompassing design ...
Marko Jobst
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Speculative bubble tendencies in time series of Bitcoin market prices

open access: yesCuadernos de Economía, 2022
This article explores the concepts of cryptocurrencies and speculative bubbles, as Bitcoin’s price behaviour shares characteristics with speculative bubbles that have occurred in recent years.
Michael Demmler   +1 more
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