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Counterfactual and alternative histories as design practice

open access: yesTemes de Disseny, 2023
The version of design that was shaped and perfected during the 20th Century played a huge role in the making of the modern (global northern) world. Whilst design’s potential as a contributor to the making of worlds is clear, its methods, metrics and ...
James Auger, Julian Hanna
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Black Panther’s Utopian Project: The Innovative Potential of Fiction and Speculation by Non-Architects

open access: yesDearq, 2020
From games to film to literature, images of utopia in media have been successful in generating fictional worlds with high aspirational values. The process of creation for these utopias is not unidirectional; unlike typical design methods, designing for ...
Fiona Kenney
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Exploring the Roles of Artifacts in Speculative Futures: Perspectives in HCI

open access: yesSystems
In an era where technology increasingly blurs the boundaries between humans and machines, artifacts have become crucial mediums for critically examining the technological, social, and ethical dimensions of Human–Computer Interaction (HCI).
Lin Zhu, Jiayue Wang, Jiawei Li
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Natural and artificial interaction. Symbiotic processes between science, art and design

open access: yesAgathón, 2022
The contribution will focus on how the concept of ‘living’ in the contemporary vision of design, with regard to vegetation, influences design culture, a concept constantly faced with the environmental context through practices of imitation of the logic ...
Federica Dal Falco   +2 more
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Dissenting Design

open access: yespiano b, 2017
As part of the discipline and practice of design (understood in its broadest sense of «strategic problem-solving process that drives innovation, builds business success, and leads to a better quality of life through innovative products, systems, services,
Simona Cosentino, Eleonora Lupo
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Edge School: A Speculative Design Fiction

open access: yesPostdigital 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.
Costello, Eamon, Grime, Prajakta
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Sinofuturism as Speculative Design

open access: yesCrossings: An Undergraduate Arts Journal, 2023
The video essay Sinofuturism (1839–2046 AD) by artist Lawrence Lek is difficult to categorize. It is an hour-long film collaging documentaries, news clips, video games, and CGI.  Most often exhibited and discussed in a (new) media arts context, it has been described as a pseudo-documentary, a manifesto, a conspiracy theory, science fiction, and ...
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Speculative Design

open access: yes
Abstract This article and the design fictions it presents are bound up with an ongoing qualitative-ethnographic study with Imazighen, the native people in remote Morocco. This group of people is marked by textual and digital illiteracy. We are in the process of developing multi-modal design fictions that can be used in workshops as a starting
Cara Wrigley, Genevieve Mosely
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Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early Body Mass Index z‐Score Change and Resolution of Severe Malnutrition in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia in a Low‐Income Setting: A Prospective Single‐Arm Extension Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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