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Speculative Design as Thought Experiment
She 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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Adventure Mode: A Speculative Rideshare Design [PDF]
Frontiers in Computer Science, 2021 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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Project Review: ‘Making Room for Abolition’, by Lauren Williams
Diseña, 2023 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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Edge School: A Speculative Design Fiction [PDF]
Postdigital Science and Education, 2022 This short piece makes no major contentions, offers no proofs, presents no evidence and advances no arguments. There is no “learning outcome” for the reader who is simply invited to read with no strings attached. What follows is a short story of a teacher (who is also a student) in an imagined higher education future.
Eamon Costello, Prajakta Girme
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Designing Speculative Civics [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016 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 DiSalvo, Tom Jenkins, Thomas Lodato
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The Ultimate Measure of Success for Speculative Design is to Disappear Completely
Interaction Design and Architecture(s), 2021 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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Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds [PDF]
, 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
International 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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EAR, 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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Architecture 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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