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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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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
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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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.
P. Farias, R. Bendor, B. V. Eekelen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Problematising upstream technology through speculative design: the case of quantified cats and dogs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
There is growing interest in technology that quantifies aspects of our lives. This paper draws on critical practice and speculative design to explore, question and problematise the ultimate consequences of such technology using the quantification of ...
Feltwell, Tom   +4 more
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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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“No powers, man!”: A student perspective on designing university smart building interactions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Smart buildings offer an opportunity for better performance and enhanced experience by contextualising services and interactions to the needs and practices of occupants.
Alavi Hamed S.   +15 more
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Radical Futures: Supporting Community-Led Design Engagements through an Afrofuturist Speculative Design Toolkit

open access: yesInternational Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2022
When considering the democratic intentions of co-design, designers and design researchers must evaluate the impact of power imbalances embedded in common design and research dynamics.
Kirsten E. Bray   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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