week 4. speculative design

Pecha kucha v2_rotterdam_2011 from bleeckerj



1. Discuss "Design fictions an introduction and provisional taxonomy" by Derek Hales

2. Practice "Poetics of design fictions" design process

Questions:
What is "speculation"? What is speculative design?




"Speculative design: crafting the speculation" by  James Auger

Reading:
M. Malpass: "Between wit and reason: defining associative, speculative, and critical design in practice"

Case study:
1. Microsoft Hololens concept video

2. Google glass concept video

1. how about seeing these videos as design fiction or speculative design
2. what is the deference between speculative and anticipatory designs?
3. What are the characters?
    What are the objects, props,?
    What are the activities?
    Where is the camera behind video? 1st or 3rd person perspectives?
    What are the socio-technical implications?

What can we learn from 電腦線圈 (science fiction)



minority report?