Speculative Design & Design Fictions

会議の名前
CHI 2022
“All that You Touch, You Change”: Expanding the Canon of Speculative Design Towards Black Futuring
要旨

Traditional approaches to technology design have historically ignored Blackness in both who engages and conceptualizes future technologies. Design contributions of groups marginalized along race and class are often \textit{othered}, and rarely considered the design standard. While frameworks have emerged to encourage attention to gender and social justice in design, little work has acknowledged evidence of the Black imaginary in this process. The current canon of design defines futuring and speculation as stemming from a narrow view of science fiction, one which does not include Black futurist perspectives. In this essay, we expand the canon of design by arguing that frameworks such as \textit{Afrofuturism}, \textit{Afrofuturist feminism}, and \textit{Black feminism} be considered instrumental in design’s imagining of our future technological landscape. We contribute to the larger conversation of who gets to future in design, suggesting a dialogic relationship between those who conceptualize design and those who consider design’s societal impact.

受賞
Honorable Mention
著者
Christina Harrington
Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Shamika Klassen
The University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Yolanda A.. Rankin
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, TALLAHASSEE, Florida, United States
論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3491102.3502118

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Seamless Visions, Seamful Realities: Anticipating Rural Infrastructural Fragility in Early Design of Digital Agriculture
要旨

Rural infrastructure is known to be more prone to breakdown than urban infrastructure.This paper explores how the fragility of rural infrastructure is reproduced through the process of engineering design. Building on values in design, we examine how eventual use is anticipated by engineering researchers building on emerging infrastructure for digital agriculture (DA). Our approach combines critically reflective technical systems-building with interviews with other practitioners to understand and address moments early in the design process where the eventual effects of DA systems may be being built-in. Our findings contrast researchers' visions of seamless farming technologies with the seamful realities of their work to produce them. We trace how, when anticipating future use, the seams that researchers themselves experience disappear, other seams are hidden from view by institutional support, and seams end users may face are too distant to be in sight. We develop suggestions for the design of these technologies grounded in a more artful management of seamfulness and seamlessness during the process of design and development.

著者
Gloire Rubambiza
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
Phoebe Sengers
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
Hakim Weatherspoon
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3491102.3517579

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Radical Futures: Supporting Community-Led Design Engagements through an Afrofuturist Speculative Design Toolkit
要旨

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. This holds particularly true in work with and for marginalized communities, who are frequently excluded in design processes. To address this issue, we examine how existing design tools and methods are used to support communities in processes of community building or reimagining, considering the influence of race and identity. This paper describes our findings from 27 interviews with community design practitioners conducted to evaluate the Building Utopia toolkit, which employs an Afrofuturist lens for speculative design processes. Our research findings support the importance of design tools that prompt conversations on race in design, and tensions between the desire for imaginative design practice and the immediacy of social issues, particularly when designing with Black and brown communities.

著者
Kirsten E. Bray
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Christina Harrington
Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Andrea G. Parker
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
N'Deye Diakhate
Black Womxn Flourish, Baltimore, Massachusetts, United States
Jennifer Roberts
Versed Education Group, Washington D,C., District of Columbia, United States
論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3491102.3501945

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Interactive Fiction Provotypes for Coping with Interpersonal Racism
要旨

Reducing uncertainty around the nature of racist interactions is one of the key motivations driving individual behaviors for coping with those incidents. However, there are few appropriate technologies to support BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) in engaging in social uncertainty reduction around this vulnerable, sensitive topic. This paper reports on an exploratory design study investigating how social technology might facilitate uncertainty reduction through three ``provotypes'' - provocative prototypes of user-generated speculative design concepts. U.S.-based participants engaged with the provotypes through an interactive fiction to explore their usefulness in the context of a racist microaggression. Results showed that engaging the provotypes through interactive fiction facilitated complex and productive interactions and critiques. This work contributes a novel method for conducting exploratory design, remote user studies using interactive fiction as well as priorities, tensions, and further information what role, if any, technology might play in managing racist interactions.

著者
Alexandra To
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Hillary Carey
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Riya Shrivastava
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Jessica Hammer
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Geoff Kaufman
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3491102.3502044

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