Bespoke Booklets

Desjardins, Audrey; Key, Cayla; Biggs, Heidi; Aschenbeck, Kelsey

doi:10.1145/3322276.3322311

Cited by 55 publications

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“…In another example, Desjardin et al's Bespoke Booklets offer a set of speculative design sketches exploring domestic IoT futures [19]. Each of the eight booklets were designed specifically for (and with) eight dwellers of a diverse set of home environments.…”

Section: Insight: Infrastructures Are Widely Shared But Are Experienmentioning

confidence: 99%

Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds

Wong

Khovanskaya

Fox

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper introduces "infrastructural speculations," an orientation toward speculative design that considers the complex and long-lived relationships of technologies with broader systems, beyond moments of immediate invention and design. As modes of speculation are increasingly used to interrogate questions of broad societal concern, it is pertinent to develop an orientation that foregrounds the "lifeworld" of artifacts-the social, perceptual, and political environment in which they exist. While speculative designs often imply a lifeworld, infrastructural speculations place lifeworlds at the center of design concern, calling attention to the cultural, regulatory, environmental, and repair conditions that enable and surround particular future visions. By articulating connections and affinities between speculative design and infrastructure studies research, we contribute a set of design tactics for producing infrastructural speculations. These tactics help design researchers interrogate the complex and ongoing entanglements among technologies, institutions, practices, and systems of power when gauging the stakes of alternate lifeworlds.

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Section: Insight: Infrastructures Are Widely Shared But Are Experienmentioning

confidence: 99%

Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds

Wong

Khovanskaya

Fox

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Despite the issues of reproducing technical tropes, the speculative dashboard did lead to discussion amongst course participants of the sources of the data, the infrastructure it was collected through and the kind of social contexts surrounding its production and use. Done in dialogue with the teachers of the course, this process is reminiscent of what Desjardins calls "co-speculation" [20]. In addition to this, the aforementioned dashboard with the heatmap also included a kind of "qualitative" data in the form of a social media feed from the institution, and the use scenario suggested was one in which weekly meetings would be held around the dashboard between cultural institution employees and volunteers, who could try to discuss and gauge how well the previous night or weekend's concerts had gone based on the data.…”

Section: Prototyping Speculationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Pierce and DiSalvo use speculative design to designate a process of design wherein they speculate on and explore potential design ideas on the basis of a wide range of tactics, theories and concepts in an attempt to address anxieties about networked technologies [69]. Desjardins has suggested focusing not on particular artefacts, but instead looks to "co-speculation" as a way of not just producing a different artefact but also to transmit knowledge "between researchers and the field" [20]. While speculative design methods have been applied broadly to design processes, few have specifically focused on the role that speculative methods might play in emerging forms of data work.…”

Section: Speculation In Research and Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Speculative Data Work & Dashboards

Hockenhull

Cohn

2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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This paper studies data work in an organizational context, and suggests speculative data work as a useful concept and the speculative dashboard as a design concept, to better understand and support cooperative work. Drawing on fieldwork in a Danish public sector organisation, the paper identifies and conceptualizes the speculative data work performed around processes of digitalization and the push to become data-driven. The speculative dashboard is proposed as a design concept and opportunity for design, using practices from speculative design and research to facilitate speculation about data?its sources, visualizations, practices and infrastructures. It does so by hacking the 'genre' of the business intelligence data dashboard, and using it as a framework for the juxtaposition of different kinds of data, facilitating and encouraging speculation on alternative visions for data types and use. The paper contributes an empirical study of organizational use of and attitudes towards data, informing a novel design method and concept for co-speculating on alternative visions of and for organizational data.

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“…While this pictorial provides an exemplar of design futuring in a novel domain, we particularly wish to illustrate the processes by which research participants and communities can be pragmatically involved in design futuring -especially as means to anchor speculation about future technologies in real-world contexts and experiences. Traditionally, speculative design, and design fictions have relied on an exclusive (often individual, expert-led) design practice, there have been recent moves to directly engage research participants in possible futures, through structured forms of experience [12], enactment [18], deliberation [36], education [29] and co-speculation [9,15]. UK innovation agency Nesta broadly identify 'participatory futuring' at the intersection of futures studies and public engagement, involving: "a range of approaches for involving citizens in exploring for shaping potential futures.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%