week 10. material speculation

A letter from an alumni recalling this course ten years before. (show thanks and respects)

What if we receive a letter from a student ten years later to remember the class now?

1. students present EX5 (AI-generative Images with EX4 stories)

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: (proposal 11/11)

Design Fiction with AI 
 

team-work or individual 

At least 3 ideas and the possible forms of design fiction for final project