Abstract:Although we aspire to make decisions based on logic and systematic analysis, it has been argued that engineers' technical decisions can be influenced by their ideologies about progress and the future -including the material selection process. In this work, we address this potential influence through a holistic and exploratory speculative design process, asking "what are some implications of the use of wood in high-performance drone structures, and what will a highperformance wooden drone structure look like?" … Show more
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