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Speculative Prototypes and Alien Ethnographies: Experimenting with Relations Beyond the Human

open access: yesDiseña, 2018
This article concerns the role of speculative design prototypes as a means of intervening into everyday life contexts in order to explore, and possibly enable, new kinds of relations between humans and non-human beings. By addressing a human de-centring
Tau Ulv Lenskjold, Li Jönsson
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Cohousing IoT: Technology Design for Life in Community

open access: yesMultimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2021
This paper presents a research-through-design project to develop and interpret speculative smart home technologies for cohousing communities—Cohousing IoT.
Tom Jenkins
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Study on the Design of Architectural Renovations in Historical Districts Based on the Architecture of Local Schema—Huaxing Street in Chengdu as an Example

open access: yesBuildings, 2023
Due to the rapid renovations of historical districts in the context of consumer society, contributing to the loss of city culture and identity, this paper describes the methodological study of the local schema concept on the renovations of architectural ...
Jianqiang Yin   +3 more
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Tinkering with social touch technology

open access: yesFrontiers in Computer Science, 2023
Social touch technology, haptic technology to mediate social touch interactions, potentially contributes to reducing negative effects of skin hunger and social isolation.
Angelika Mader   +4 more
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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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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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“All You Can Eat” : Prototyping Speculative Food Futures [PDF]

open access: yesThe Design Journal, 2019
This workshop is concerned with the relationship between food and global health, and in particular with the role that design can play as a futuring practice (Fry, 2008). Industrial food and food practices have contributed to both human and planetary ill-being.
Tsekleves, Emmanouil, Pollastri, Serena
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Concept Cars as Vehicles for Change in SMEs

open access: yesTemes de Disseny, 2020
Making prototypes of fictitious artifacts has long been applied in corporations as a design-led way to envisioning the future. These techniques make use of design to explore speculative futures translating abstract questions into concrete objects and ...
Javier Ricardo Mejía Sarmiento   +3 more
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A prototype model of speculative dynamics with position-based trading [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2009
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Citizen Science Fiction: The Potential of Situated Speculative Prototyping for Public Engagement on Emerging Technologies [PDF]

open access: yesNanoEthics, 2021
AbstractIn response to calls for a research and innovation system that is more open to public scrutiny, we have seen a growth of formal and informal public engagement activities in the past decades. Nevertheless, critiques of several persistent routines in public engagement continue to resurface, in particular the focus on expert knowledge, cognitive ...
Jantien W. Schuijer   +2 more
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