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Games as speculative design:allowing players to consider alternate presents and plausible futures [PDF]
, 2016 As games are inherently about exploring alternative worlds this paper proposes the utilisation of games as a medium for speculative design through which players can explore scenarios that represent plausible alternative presents and speculative futures ...
Burnett, Dan +2 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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Design Fiction Diegetic Prototyping: A Research Framework for Visualizing Service Innovations [PDF]
, 2019 The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.Purpose: This paper presents a design fiction diegetic prototyping methodology and research framework for ...
Belk, Russell +2 more
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Power, Politics, and Domestic Desire in Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood [PDF]
, 2013 Octavia Butler’s works, from her short stories and novellas to her science fiction novels, focus on themes of power, control, bondage, and a desired freedom from servitude.
Nanda, Aparajita
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Problematising upstream technology through speculative design: the case of quantified cats and dogs [PDF]
, 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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Bringing Infrastructural Criticism to Speculative Fiction: China Miéville’s “Covehithe”
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2019 This article unites infrastructural criticism, speculative fiction, and ecocriticism. Bruce Robbins, Patricia Yeager, and other scholars have been building the field of infrastructural criticism over the past ten years, but this work has largely focused ...
Andy Hageman
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Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2020 This paper interprets the way in which transnational writers use monstrosity and the uncanny to investigate the concept of the HomeSpace with dissent. An important group of unusual creatures in the contemporary fiction of Latin American women authors ...
María Jesús Llarena Ascanio
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Researching design fiction with design fiction [PDF]
, 2015 The term design fiction was first used in 2005 by Bruce Sterling [18:30] and in 2009 Julian Bleecker built on the idea by combining it with various other characterisations [cf. 1,2,10] and catalysed a step change in design fiction discourse.
Lindley, Joseph
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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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Fictionalism of Anticipation [PDF]
, 2021 A promising recent approach for understanding complex phenomena is recognition of anticipatory behavior of living organisms and social organizations. The anticipatory, predictive action permits learning, novelty seeking, rich experiential existence.
Vidunas, Raimundas
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