week 12. fictional soundscape

Ekkomaten—exploring the echo as a design fiction concept

Moon graffiti by Near Future Lab (Counterfactual thought experiment)

Feature Lab:
  Near Future Lab
  Blog

非洲太空計畫


Once Upon a Future - IoX project

different layers of sounds in science fiction movie


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fu7jN2_2pE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9L0pord5jE

Confabulation/Speculation/Reminiscence ?

EX5. Fictional Soundscape (with 7 types of Thought Experiment)

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

Discuss and pick up 2 types of thought experiments, and composite of the sounds into to two "fictional soundscapes." : Deadline Dec. 12, 2018

Reference:
http://www.ambient-mixer.com/
https://coffitivity.com/

Speculative Archaeology  demo  examples:

http://designfictions2013.blogspot.com/2014/05/week-12-midterm-fictional-ethnography.html
http://designfictions2013.blogspot.com/2015/12/week-13-fictional-ethnography-demo.htm
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week 11. future archeology

What is Future Archeology?
Whet is speculative archaeology?

Towards a speculative archaeology

(1)"I focused on DeLanda and his version of Deleuze but I briefly brought up speculative realism and why this “movement” rejects “the linguistic turn”."

(2) "Preucel and Meskell (2006:14) suggest that the fuzzy concept of materiality “takes as its remit the exploration of the situated experiences of material life, the constitution of the object world and concomitantly its shaping of human experience”."

(3)"Most speculative realists therefore attempt to break with correlationism (not Meillassoux himself though since he wishes to radicalize correlationism from within). I am all in favour of diminishing the centrality of the human being in archaeology."

Speculative Archaeology

The way of the Shavel

題外話: (創造性的背離 creative betrayal by Franco Meregalli)

【叶嘉莹】从西方文论与中国诗学谈李商隐诗的诠释与接受 南开大学

Questions:
1. What is the documentation film you want to present? What is you Archeology Plan and activity?
2. How to present speculative aesthetics of archaeology?
3.  how about speculative betrayal?

設計的未來考古學

http://www.books.com.tw/products/0010210953

未來考古鳥

KEO 計畫

http://www.keo.org/uk/pages/message_cn.php 

imaginary archeology

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2311592/Corroded-cameras-moss-covered-macs-Is-left-civilisation-100-years.html

Question:

What evidence (in what style) do you want to present?

http://whatthecool.com/post/957922435/extinct-modern-technology
http://www.leapleapleap.com/2013/09/time-the-future-archaeology-of-annie-wan/
http://blog.archaeologyofthefuture.com/
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_216_25-common-items-that-will-baffle-future-archeologists/

DANIEL ARSHAM'S EXHIBITION FICTIONAL ARCHEOLOGY

Imaginary Archaeology 

Case study:

Dunne and Raby, Designs for an Overpopulated Planet 

Project (step 1) Speculative Archaeology Plan: (in group)
1. Design your narrative scheme.
2. Plan your speculative archaeology activity, imaginative excavation (挖掘), and documentation.

Presentation: Dec. 5, 2018.

week 10. fictional ethnography

1. students present "design poem"



Reading:

"Tangible possibilities: envisioning interactions in public space" by M. Smyth & I. Helgason.

Critical Design :: Restoring a sense of wonder to Interaction Design from Michael Smyth

fictional ethnography project

September 2013: Ethnography, Speculative Fiction and Design

Our Plastic Century

Auction of the future

From Design Fiction to Experiential Futures

Future Archaeology:

http://geofffarquharstill.com/galleries/exhibitions/my-private-arsenal/

http://whatthecool.com/post/957922435/extinct-modern-technology

Future fossils

http://flavorwire.com/245785/wanted-faux-fossilized-versions-of-outdated-gadgets/

http://www.bughouse.com/artwork/114/open-editions/future-fossils/

Rethinking How to fictionalize ethnography:
1. What are the basis steps or elements of ethnography?  design ethnography?
   ref:(http://www.nicolasnova.net/pasta-and-vinegar/2015/9/28/design-fiction-anticipatory-ethnography-and-ethnographies-of-the-possible)
2. chose one or more steps/elements in ethnography, and try to fictionalize.
3. What is the possible outcome of such ethnography?
4. How does these outcomes provide speculation?

paper reading:

1. anticipatory ethnography

2. impossible ethnography

week 9. narrative from future

Speculative photo sharing

來自後攻殼動隊時代的一封信

1. 未來與現在的人物關係描述

2. 錨點事件 (anchor event) 引入情境

3. what-if 規則造成的後果與危機

4. 解除危機的邀請與行動開展的召喚

Paper reading:
The poetics of design fictions
(the narrative diagram)

Extrapolation Diagram, by Chris Woebken (via About - The Extrapolation Factory)

PPPP by Dunne & Raby

http://speculative.hr/en/introduction-to-speculative-design-practice/

                                     http://speculative.hr/en/category/works-en/

CHI 2039: speculative research visions

  25年前的 CHI 研究

Research through design fiction: narrative in real and imaginary abstracts

Running an HCI experiment in multiple parallel universes

https://www.facebook.com/heritage1994/videos/vb.1547487345494442/1656391757937333/?type=2&theater

Questions:
1. What is the possible narrative scheme? Illustrate it with diagram (分組討論)
2. What are the anchors? objects, human, place, legend, or ritual?

Practice: a letter from future

Compose a letter from future where the anchor event has just happened.
This letter should sensitize the relationship between future and the present, inspire how to conduct a design research, and fictionize your roles and worlds.

week 8. design poem

Science Poem Manifesto by OK DO
Design notes on a lonely drone (6 poems 翻譯與朗讀)

Science fact -> science fiction -> science poem
Design fact -> design fiction -> design poem

scientist, engineer, designer (artist) ?


Feature film: Prometheus


http://scifiinterfaces.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/prometheus-overview/

Science fiction or religious fiction?


EX 4: Design Poems (Science Poems) project

1. Choose a science (or design) fact (artifacts).
2. Use the artifacts as material of Poems.
3. You can change the color, painting, material, ...... to composite a setting.
4. You may add poem or Heiku to your work. (or poems by the artifacts)
5. Take lots of photographs and upload to the Google drive.



Deadlines:Nov. 14, 2018

week 7. aesthetics of speculation

1. design fiction slides by Bleecker:

Pecha kucha v2_rotterdam_2011 from bleeckerj




2. Practice "Poetics of design fictions" design process

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics


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

naive realism 素樸實在論.  modal realism (MR) 模態實在論, possiblist realism 可能主義實在論， speculative realism (SR) 推測實在論

pragmatist aesthetics 實用主義美學 (Dewey), speculative aesthetics 推測美學

EX 3:

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。

  

  參考: Lynne Cohen, Lucinda Devlin, Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan

Lars Tunbjörk’s Alien at the Office　(2004)　  (mundane spaces that seem extraordinary. Yet these alien spaces are where many people spend their working lives)

Lucinda Devlin's photos:

http://www.lucindadevlin.com/

Lynne Cohen's artworks:

http://www.lynne-cohen.com/
Lynne Cohen’s Occupied Territory (1987)


Taryn Simon’s An American Index of the Modern and Unfamiliar9 (2007)

Richard Ross’s Architecture of Authority10 (2007)


(The above three examples reveal spaces that we know must exist but have no idea how they look. They have a harsh, inhuman quality, stripped down to the absolute essentials, emphasizing their purpose.

Lucinda Devlin’s The Omega Suites (1991–1998)  provides glimpses into extreme
but ghoulish spaces—execution chambers, the places where the state, on its
citizens’ behalf, takes people’s lives. They are clinical, easy-to-maintain,
brutally engineered environments designed to achieve one purpose—the
humane killing of human beings. They include safety measures, provision for
last-minute retrieval, and the need for the event to be witnessed.

Larry Sultan's Untitled Evidence:

http://larrysultan.com/gallery/evidence/ : gathered images from the archives of research centers,
laboratories, test sites, and industrial facilities, presented without captions
or other information. They compel us to interpret what is going on, to project
stories and meanings onto them, illustrating that even objective records are
rarely neutral.

For us, these are the proto-images for an aesthetics of speculation. They
suggest a techno-poetic landscape situated somewhere between what we are

and what we have the potential to become.

Deadline: 2018/11/7

印出兩張與同學交換。

Questions:
What are the possible qualities of speculative aesthetics?  for example:
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,
...
Constructively identify at least 20 qualities by concluding classmates' sharing.


Reading:
Speculative aesthetics

Speculative Aesthetics and Object-Oriented Inquiry (OOI),” by N. Katherine Hayles 

 Graham Harman: “Aesthetics as First Philosophy"
 p. 159:

The essential move here is to identify aesthetics with “enjoyment” (Levinas’s term) or “allure” (Harman’s) so that the sensual qualities of objects in which other objects “bathe” is understood as an essentially aesthetic response. Thus aesthetics is generalised so that it applies not only to humans but to all objects, including inanimate ones.

p. 167:

Following Harman, Bogost accepts that “all objects recede interminably (沒完沒了的) into themselves,” which implies that putting things “at the center of a new metaphysics also requires us to admit that they do not exist just for us.”

p. 168:

"we never understand the alien experience, we only ever reach for it metaphorically.”

p. 169:

"Where I begin to depart from Bogost and Harman is on the issue of how objects manifest themselves. Whereas they emphasise an object’s allure, the attraction it emanates for other objects, more important in my experience is the resistance objects offer to human manipulation and understanding"

"The difference between resistance and acquiescence is that acquiescence is always metaphoric, whereas resistance is decisive: “Whatever I am, I’m not that,” an object can respond to human probing."

 p. 178.

"I ended by arguing that the way to escape anthropocentrism is precisely through an imaginative projection into the worldviews of other objects and beings, based on evidence about their ways of being in the world,"

week 6. seven types of thought experiments

1. Students present Time framework for sci-fi movies.
2. Thought experiment

"One way this might be possible is to treat design speculations not as
narratives or coherent “worlds” but as thought experiments—constructions,
crafted from ideas expressed through design—that help us think about
difficult issues." p. 80. SE

"Thought experiments are usually done in fields
where it is possible to precisely define limits and rules, such as mathematics,
science (particularly physics), and philosophy (especially ethics) to test
ideas, refute theories, challenge limits, or explore possible implications.
They make full use of the imagination and are often beautiful designs in
themselves."

"One of our favorite forms of thought experiment uses reductio ad absurdum,
a type of logical argument in which one assumes a claim for the sake of
argument and derives an absurd or ridiculous outcome by taking it to its
extreme, concluding that the original claim must have been wrong because it
led to such an absurd result."

"Another well-established form of thought experiment is the counterfactual. A
historical fact is changed to see what might have happened, if. . . . It is
sometimes used in history to understand the importance of key events and
their influence on how the world turned out."


"...we are
more interested in using props to transport viewers’ imagination into a
thought experiment, or what-if, and allow enough room for them to make
their own interpretations." p. 93, SE


Generally speaking, there are seven types of thought experiments in which one reasons from causes to effects, or effects to causes. (wikipedia)

(1) 

Prefactual

Prefactual (before the fact) thought experiments — — speculate on possible future outcomes, given the present, and ask "What will be the outcome if event E occurs?"

 (2)

Counterfactual

Counterfactual (contrary to established fact) thought experiments —  — speculate on the possible outcomes of a different past; and ask "What might have happened if A had happened instead of B?" 

(3)

Semifactual

Semifactual thought experiments — — speculate on the extent to which things might have remained the same, despite there being a different past; and asks the question Even though X happened instead of E, would Y have still occurred? 

(4)

Prediction

The activity of prediction attempts to project the circumstances of the present into the future.

(5)

Hindcasting

The activity of hindcasting involves running a forecast model after an event has happened in order to test whether the model's simulation is valid.

(6)

Retrodiction

The activity of retrodiction (or postdiction) involves moving backwards in time, step-by-step, in as many stages as are considered necessary, from the present into the speculated past to establish the ultimate cause of a specific event (e.g., reverse engineeringand forensics).

(7)

Backcasting

he activity of backcasting —involves establishing the description of a very definite and very specific future situation. It then involves an imaginary moving backwards in time, step-by-step, in as many stages as are considered necessary, from the future to the present to reveal the mechanism through which that particular specified future could be attained from the present.

See Blade runner 2049 ->2048 nowhere to run -> 2036 Nexus Dawn -> Blackout 2022

Bladerunner (1982) 2019