Speculative Design: an introduction
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This document discusses speculative design and its use in preparing for future challenges. Speculative design imagines possible futures and debates their implications before they happen. It operates on an intellectual level by placing new technologies in imaginary everyday situations. Speculative design can manifest possibilities and facilitate more desirable futures. It triggers designers to think in new environments and systems. Speculative design is presented as an attitude that can be introduced in standard design processes. Examples are given of speculative design projects like DIY surgical robots and designing for an overpopulated planet. The document advocates joining a meetup group to get involved in speculative design.
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‘There is no doubt that the WDCD Refugee Challenge
deserves credit for raising awareness among
professional designers and the public that this
humanitarian crisis should be addressed.
But it fails to acknowledge its own political position
as an actor in the refugee crisis and does not
address the responsibility of designers
themselves. […] If we do not take the impact that
design has on the world seriously, design for good
can do more harm than good.’
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Speculative Design: an introduction
- 1. SPECULATIVE FUTURES MEETUP DIGITAL SOCIETY SCHOOL 29-05-2019
- 2. Speculative Futures Amsterdam Introducing Speculative Design
- 6. We are living in an accelerating world
- 7. and we have trouble keeping up
- 8. Old ways of thinking don’t work anymore,
- 9. and that effects and affects design.
- 10. WDCD’s Refuge Challenge (2016)
- 11. 7 ‘There is no doubt that the WDCD Refugee Challenge deserves credit for raising awareness among professional designers and the public that this humanitarian crisis should be addressed. But it fails to acknowledge its own political position as an actor in the refugee crisis and does not address the responsibility of designers themselves. […] If we do not take the impact that design has on the world seriously, design for good can do more harm than good.’ Ruben Pater about WDCD in dezeen (2016)
- 12. This is also design
- 13. Dick Buchanan’s four orders of design (1992)
- 16. dick buchanan’s f our orders of design
- 20. artefact macro meso micro praxisenvironment My translation: the mmm’s (three levels)
- 21. linear methods waterfall classic research meaning centered design discursive design disruptive design speculative design artefact solution driven praxis problem driven environment question driven Lean Thinking User-Centered Design Human-Centred Design Agile System Thinking Design Thinking
- 22. Eliot R. Montgomery (epm*id/parsons)
- 23. ‘speculative design is a way to manifest possibilities, to prepare us for inconvenient challenges and facilitate a more desirable, responsible path into the future’ Phil Balagtas (speculative futures/McKinsey & co)
- 24. The Futures Cone, Joseph Voros (2003)
- 26. ‘Design today is concerned primarily with commercial and marketing activities but it could operate on a more intellectual level. It could place new technological developments within imaginary but believable everyday situations that would allow us to debate the implications of different technological futures before they happen.’ Antony Dunne & Fiona Raby
- 27. Raby & Dunne - Design for an overpopulated planet, foragers (2010)
- 28. raby & dunne - design for an overpopulated planet, foragers (2010)
- 29. Cow&Co (2017) Anastasia Egges & Ottonie Roeder
- 30. ‘Design processes have become increasingly complex, so the acceptance of new design becomes equally complex, The design of the intervention - the introduction and integration of design into the status quo - is even more critical to the success than the design artifact itself.’ Essense of Intervention Design, Irving Wladawsky-Berger
- 31. Electric cars are design thinking.
- 32. New ways of movement is Speculative Design
- 33. ‘Speculative design is an attitude. When introduced in a standard design process, it triggers the designer to think in new environments that create a new world with new systems, new behavior, and new artifacts.’ Speculative Design according to Theo Ploeg
- 34. intervention design a discursivedesign approachusing speculation as frame the intervention design model imagine build a fictional world make let’s prototype translate createtell ideate experiment evaluate define explore investigate your environment frame observe
- 35. intervention design a discursivedesign approachusing speculation as frame imagine build a fictional world make let’s prototype translate createtell ideate experiment evaluate define explore investigate your environment frame observe the intervention design model environmental (macro)
- 36. intervention design a discursivedesign approachusing speculation as frame the intervention design model imagine build a fictional world make let’s prototype translate createtell ideate experiment evaluate define explore investigate your environment frame observe environmental(macro) praxis (meso)
- 37. intervention design a discursivedesign approachusing speculation as frame the intervention design model imagine build a fictional world make let’s prototype translate createtell ideate experiment evaluate define explore investigate your environment frame observe environmental(macro) praxis (meso) artefact (micro)
- 38. International minor program (mamdt) & Cube Design Museum, Kerkrade
- 39. DIY Surgical Robot (2015) Frank Kolkman
- 40. Space10 The future of ‘producing’ furniture
- 41. Precious Plastic (2014) Dave Hakkens
- 43. Want to be involved? Join our meetup