Speculative approaches
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https://superflux.in/ Superflux
Superflux,
EVIDENCING HUMANITARIAN FUTURES
¡®DONAID¡¯ hypothetical or speculative design made for the Red Cross
¡®DONAID¡¯ is a future donation platform where a person can convert their computer/device processing power into a virtual cryptocurrency and donate this currency to the Red Cross and Red Crescent for a cause of their choice.
https://www.sociality.today/ Paolo Cirio
https://www.sociality.today/ Paolo Cirio
Campaign to expose and ban
thousands of US patents that protect IP for socially harmful information technology.
Speculative Design, Design Noir
User Centered
¡°Make observations on the intended target population, generate ideas, produce prototypes and test them. Repeat until satisfied.¡±
Norman, Don. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition (p. 222). Basic Books.
Jacques Carelman
Impossible Objects
Speculative Everything
When people think of design, most believe it is about problem solving.
Design as a means of speculating how things could be¡ªspeculative design.
Dunne, A., & Raby, F. (2013). Speculative everything: design, fiction, and social dreaming. MIT press.
Superflux,
OUR FRIENDS ELECTRIC
Our Friends Electric is a short film exploring alternate forms and interactions for voice AI.
The film explores our developing relationship with voice activated AI assistants, and the future potential of these relationships through three fictional devices.
The hugely influential collective Archigram mixed 60s space race ideas with British provincial humour to visualise ¡®pulsating¡¯ mobile cities of the future.
Archigram
Speculative Design
¡°we need to look beyond design to the methodological playgrounds of cinema, literature, science, ethics, politics, and art; to explore, hybridize, borrow, and embrace the many tools available for crafting not only things but also ideas¡ª fictional worlds, cautionary tales, what-if scenarios, thought experiments, counterfactuals, reductio ad absurdum experiments, prefigurative futures, and so on.¡±
Dunne, A., & Raby, F. (2013). Speculative everything: design, fiction, and social dreaming. MIT press.
Use design to open up all sorts of possibilities that can be discussed, debated, and used to collectively define a preferable future for a given group of people: from companies, to cities, to societies.
Design Noir
Designs that work against their users
Designs that create an existential crisis
Design Noir
“So many of us ¡ª you know, even myself ¡ª are constantly in situations where we wish we had been recording and didn’t have the wherewithal to pull out our phone or … a recording device at the time,” said the app’s co-founder, Ryan Saleh
Design Noir
As mass riots continued on the streets of Kiev, protesters, as well as other people in the area, received a mysterious text message on Monday evening.
“Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance,” the message read, as first reported by The New York Times.
The Deliverance Machine by Philip Nitschke.
Euthanasia machine.
The computer program asked a series of questions to confirm
the person’s intent to die. After answering affirmatively to all of the questions, a lethal injection of barbiturates was triggered.
Adversarial Design
Designing contestation and dissensus
Adversarial Design Carl Disalvo
How design can be used to challenge belief, values and perceived truth.
Via agonistic design. Create spaces of contestation and dissensus.
Kurgan and Cadora’s incarceration maps explore the intersections between poverty, race, prison admissions, and prison expenditures to reveal how the government spends over a million dollars to imprison a specific demographic of city dwellers, often those living within one census block.
What would the city look like if less money was spent on incarceration and more was directed to developing these neighborhoods?, Kurgan asks
http://spatialinformationdesignlab.org/projects/million-dollar-blocks
Is Design Political
¡°Do Artifacts Have Politics?¡±
Langdon Winner (1980) suggests that highway overpass bridges designed by New York urban planner Robert Moses that linked the city to beaches enforced a racist doctrine.
According to Winner, the bridges were designed with a height that would not permit buses to pass underneath, thereby barring people of color (who depended on public transportation) from accessing beaches near the city.
DiSalvo, Carl. Adversarial Design (Design Thinking, Design Theory) (p. 23). The MIT Press. Kindle Edition.
Forensic Architecture / Gaza Platform
Forensic Architecture
Our investigations seek to provide new kinds of evidence for international prosecution teams, political organisations, NGOs and international institutions such as the UN.
We locate and analyse photographs, videos, audio files and testimonies to reconstruct and analyse violent events. https://forensic-architecture.org/inve stigation/the-bombing-of-rafah
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