week 9. design fiction (revisiting Neuromancer)

1. students present images of Neuromancer chap1, 2
2. What is Design Fiction?
    What is Prop?
    What is Diegetic Prototype?

Design Fiction: Something and the Something in the Age of the Something from Julian Bleecker

source: Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction

Bruce Sterling 
ACM Interaction 2009 cover story, Design Fiction by Bruce Sterling

Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell. 2014. "Resistance is futile": reading science fiction alongside ubiquitous computing. Personal Ubiquitous Comput. 18, 4 (April 2014), 769–778. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-013-0678-7

Jeffrey Bardzell and Shaowen Bardzell. 2014. "A great and troubling beauty": cognitive speculation and ubiquitous computing. Personal Ubiquitous Comput. 18, 4 (April 2014), 779–794. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-013-0677-8

Mark Blythe. 2014. The hitchhiker's guide to ubicomp: using techniques from literary and critical theory to reframe scientific agendas. Personal Ubiquitous Comput. 18, 4 (April 2014), 795–808. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-013-0679-6

Examples:
Postscape Design Fiction
Core77 Speculative Design

Core77 2020 Speculative Design

Core77 2021 Speculative Design

Core77 2022 Speculative Design

The Solution Printer: Magic Realist Design Fiction

HawkEye - Deploying a Design Fiction Probe

Real-Fictional Entanglements: Using Science Fiction and Design Fiction to Interrogate Sensing Technologies (Biosense Berkeley)

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
• Ghost in the Shell [Mamoru Oshii] - storing memories, accessing brains, replication
• Diamond Age [Neil Stephenson] - parenting from afar via evolving storytelling
• Dune [Frank Herbert] - cognitive augmentation

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

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Scifi

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