Stop Designing Artifacts. Please Build Speculative Worlds!
WORKSHOP
SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2021 at 08:00 - 11:00 (EST/UTC/GMT-04:00)
Duration: 3 Hours
Language: English
Over the last decade, along with the rise of new technologies, the need of a new design-led approach has emerged to address the complex, wicked problems confronting societies in the 21st century.
As an evidence, we have also witnessed the rise of speculative and futures-oriented practices at the convergence of design and futures studies (mainly Speculative Design, Design Fiction and Experiential Futures) that can help practitioners to widen their design perspectives, and extend their toolbox for designing alternative futures beyond user-centred approach.
With the spread of future-oriented practices, new approaches have emerged that explore how Speculative Design and Design Fiction can be used to more explicitly focus on the broader social, technical, and political worlds in which speculative artefacts exist. These approaches go beyond immediate moments of use to explore speculative worlds and the different impacts of technologies as well as the maintenance and repair operations required to keep these artefacts working.
Drawing from the mentioned perspective and approaches, our workshop aims at experimenting design techniques to envision speculative worlds. The workshop will be structure in two parts:
PART 1: IMAGINED WORLD
Participants will be asked to collaboratively build a common image of the future by identifying the key characteristics of a future world and mapping consequences on a systemic level.
PART 2: STORIES FROM ELSEWHERE
Participants will be asked to build everyday narratives to evoke the world they had collaboratively imagined. To wrap up the session, we will ask participants to share their stories about the imagined world. After the workshop, a summary of the day’s activities will be shared in a Medium post.
Workshop facilitated by Giovanni Caruso, Angelica Fontana, Silvio Cioni
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