week 10. material speculation

1. Students present AI generated Neuromancer-entangled Taipei Scenes
  (1) identify the possible scenes, scenarios, (quotes) in the Neuromancer fiction
  (2) apply qualities of speculative aesthetics to the scene with proper prompts
  (3) generate and choose the scene
  (4) name it and cite the texts in the book

other Neuromancer related objects and scenarios:

William Gibson's Neuromancer: Concept Art

2. Paper reading: Material Speculation (AA'15)
3. Rung-Huei Liang. 2013. Pragmatist Poetics in Interaction Design. (IASDR 2013)

"Bachelard sets material imagination apart from formal imagination [2]. Rather than being conceived intellectually in formal imagination, material imagination is an idea that comes from contact with nature material, such as water and fire." p. 2524

 4.  Morse Things: A Design Inquiry into the Gap Between Things and Us

  5. Olly Radio by Odom https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290605.3300264

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Questions:

  1. What are counterfactual artifacts?

       (containing an 'if'- clause that is contrary to fact)

      nonfunctional prototypes, storytelling props, fictional objects

  2. What is Possible World Theory?
  3. What is pragmatist speculation?
  4. What is formal speculation v.s. material speculation?

Final Project:

Design Fiction with AI