2024年10月27日 星期日

week 9. design fiction

1. students present EX5 (AI-generative Images with EX4 stories)
2. What is Design Fiction?
    What is Prop?
    What is Diegetic Prototype?




Core77 2022 Speculative Design

The Solution Printer: Magic Realist Design Fiction


Discussion:
1. What are the differences between Design Fiction and Speculative Design?
    (clear fiction v.s. techno-poetic speculation)
2. Aesthetics of speculation: What if an an everyday object is a diegetic prototype of another possible world?


How about science fiction?




also see TEI 2017 student design challenge references:

Watching/Reading List
We encourage wild, obscure references to any kind of sci-fi media. Here’s some our favourite to get you started


      • Vermilion sands [JG Ballard] - Houses with memory, living fashion and sound jewellry.
      • Rainbows End [Vernor Vinge] - Augmented Reality, haptic feedback and silent messages.
      • Snow Crash [Neil Stephenson] - Virtual reality, physical augmentations.
      • Her [Spike Jonze] - computers as people, ubiquitous computing, super AI.
      • Matrix [The Wachowski Brothers] - simulated reality, downloading programs into the brain
      • Blade Runner [Ridley Scott] - Dystopian futures, Androids and AI, replication of beings.
      • Brainstorm [Douglas Trumbull] - physically experiencing somebody else's reality
      • Diamond Age [Neil Stephenson] - parenting from afar via evolving storytelling
      • Dune [Frank Herbert] - cognitive augmentation

https://tei.acm.org/2017/sdc.php















EX:
觀察生活周遭, 拍照片表達對照的概念
   例如:
   未來 vs. 過去, 推測的世界 (what we have the potential to become) vs. 現狀  (what we are) 
   都市場景, 交通工具, 廢墟/大樓, 生活用品, 信仰, 政治, 國際經濟, 權力, 社會制度, 家庭制    度, 教育, 身體, 運動, 休閒, 品牌, 符號, 文字, 自然環境, 物種....




Reference:

Design fictions an introduction and provisional taxonomy

by Derek Hales

Neuromancer
Part I : Chiba City Blues

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

神經喚術士
第一部: 千葉市藍調

"港口上空是電視的顏色,電視調至死頻的顏色。"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1kJI-UvYwQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNVbrHjX-xs








2024年10月20日 星期日

week 8. soundscape fiction project demo (EX5)

 1.  AI aided soundscape fiction demo

2. Introducing Part II Design Fiction

        Design Fiction

        Transmedia Narratives & Simulacra

        Material Speculation

EX5 (AI-generative Images with EX4 stories)

1. Choose one story in your EX4

2. generate several images to illustrate your stories

3. summarize your method (including texts, texts-to-image, prompts, structure, style,...) 


2024年10月12日 星期六

week 7. fictional soundscape & sonic possible world

[Tutorial]
    Introducing ChatGPT as an AI tool for narrative making
    Using Text-to-Speech software to create narrative voices
    Making Layered sounds as fictional soundscape
   


Ekkomaten—exploring the echo as a design fiction concept

Sonic Possible Worlds by salomé voegelin






BBC Radio Afternoon Drama - Forever Mankind



Moon graffiti by Near Future Lab (Counterfactual thought experiment)



The truth podcast: Moon Graffiti, 2011/2/11
http://www.thetruthpodcast.com/story/2015/10/15/moon-graffiti

Feature Lab:
  Near Future Lab
  Blog

非洲太空計畫


Once Upon a Future - IoX project
  Science fiction radio play by BBC






Frozen in Time: Radio Sci Fi Drama



SCIFI Channel: DUST




Confabulation/Speculation/Reminiscence ?

中文科幻廣播劇:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1TUcVGSLWg




Imagine you are a future anthropologist, record soundscape of Taipei:
record the following 4 types of sound

1. Ambient sound
2. Foreground sound (music, movie themes...)
3. human voice, conversation, news report, TV talk show...
4. sound clips from science fiction films

possible worlds interactive short film: Possibilia

2024年10月5日 星期六

week 6. speculative aesthetics sharing & narrative workshop

I. speculative aesthetics sharing (1.5 hr)

 EX3 學生報告 (2024/10/7): 

speculative aesthetics around the life world:
請觀察生活周遭, 拍照片表達奇異的推測美感(aesthetics of speculation)、技術詩意(techno-poetic)、類平行世界、almost impossible reality。

Deadline: 2024/10/7

上傳至雲端硬碟,並印出兩張與同學交換。

Sharing Activity:
0. 全班分組 (每組3-5人)
1.  將自己的兩張照片分別與不同的同學交換
2.  各自針對拿到的照片,進行"推測特質" 標註 (使用便利貼)
3.  組內討論與分享照片心得
4.  以組為單位,歸納 至少20 個 "推測特質"
  參考過去成果:
out-of-place,
out-of-time,
multiple possible worlds,
hidden truth,
object's viewpoint,
other unknown actor's viewpoint,
other species viewpoints
withdrawal,
resistance,
object's enjoyment (allure, emotion),
non-human (machine, AI)'s perspective,
strange object-to-object relationship,
unknown purpose
useless design
strange ritual
serious equipment for unknown tasks
formal spatial arrangement for unknown activities
deserted space for a specific task

 5. 每組推薦2~3張 照片,分享報告給全班同學,並分享歸納的"推測特質"

II. 敘事練習 (1.5 hr)

EX4: (10/7 week 6 in-class workshop, upload deadline 10/14)
1. 選定一段科幻小說(代表未來可能世界,摘錄做成幾張牌卡例如"神經幻術士")、一段懷舊小說(代表過去可能世界,摘錄做成幾張牌卡例如"天橋上的魔術師")、一段日常生活紀錄(代表現在真實世界,錄音逐字稿摘錄片段)
2. 依照[時間架構句型總表.pptx]的時空模型,創作至少五種敘事,並畫出時空敘事架構圖。

workshop activity
0. 全班分組 (每組3-5人)
1. 簡單分享 "未來文本" 牌卡,"過去文本" 牌卡
2. 每人選定一段自己的日常錄音紀錄文,並選出五種時空敘事模式
3. 可以使用自己或組員的 牌卡 來組合敘事
4. 可使用 chatGPT 生成符合要求的敘事
5. 每位同學分享一段自己最有感覺的敘事。