Skinny as a Bird: Design fiction as a vehicle for reflecting on food futures

Hebrok, Marie; Mainsah, Henry

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2022.102983

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“…While the latter are extensively used within certain approaches to SRT, critical approaches (see Castro & Batel, 2008) also favour qualitative methodologies. We do not, therefore, see any incommensurability between the two perspectives when it comes to the question of how people represent the future: these analyses can surely be performed by using the methods that more critical approaches to SRT have been using to explore SRs – focus groups, individual interviews, media and policy analyses – but it also opens up the opportunity to combine those methods with other techniques and tools that have been prevalent in PS, such as participant observation, case studies and those flourishing in other fields and which are particularly helpful in exploring meaning‐making about the future, such as material methods (Ravn, 2022) and design fiction (Hebrok & Mainsah, 2022).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements

Wallace,

Batel

2023

J Theory Soc Behav

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To understand social issues and practices such as those related to climate change and technological change that are clearly future‐oriented – collectively experienced events that are “not yet” – and co‐constructed by different actors, we need nuanced conceptualizations of how people think about, negotiate and co‐create futures that allow us to understand not only what people (can) think and do about future‐related issues but also how that happens, what for and with which implications. However, so far, one of the key theoretical approaches that has conceptualised how people make meaning in situations of change and uncertainty – the socio‐psychological social representations theory (SRT) – has not often engaged with the future or with different forms of temporality. By contrast, the French pragmatic sociology of engagements and critique (PS) has engaged with these notions, conceptualising them in relation to materiality and a plurality of moral orientations – two dimensions often seen as key to how collective futures are made and imagined. To offer a more nuanced and systematic conceptualization of how people represent the future and with what consequences, this paper will present, compare and synthesise SRT and PS, as a first step towards an interdisciplinary research agenda on social change and representations of the future.

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Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements

Wallace,

Batel

2023

J Theory Soc Behav

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“…However, in workshops there is little time for explicitly documenting the ideas behind such interventions. Inspired by Hebrok & Mainsah [6] who used purposely designed fake news in their design fiction project BIRD, we found that asking students to articulate such ideas using fake news reports serves this goal of clarifying intentions behind their interventions surprisingly well. For students this proved to be an inspiring and fast way to articulate their ideas behind the concept, and during the final exhibition, many visitors reacted positively, stating that the fake news reports made it easy to understand the speculative and norm-critical designs displayed.…”

Section: Fake News Reportsmentioning

confidence: 93%

A Toolbox for Addressing Shame in Design Projects

Trondsen,

Boks

2023

Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, EPDE 2023

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In various master projects and workshops, we have experimented with a toolbox aimed at assisting designers with understanding self-conscious emotions such as shame, embarrassment, and guilt in relation to design challenges. The rationale for doing so is that using conventional methods of inquiry have severe limitations in understanding the role shame and related concepts have in supporting and hindering desirable sustainable, socially acceptable, and healthy s. This paper presents the toolbox which includes shame stretching exercises, inverse empathy mapping, a meme tool, a 'Shame Cues' card deck, and making fake news reports. We reflect on how students and workshop participants use these tools and how they contribute to their ability to better articulate shame related aspects, identify opportunities for design interventions based on removing or adding shame, and in general to raise norm critical awareness.

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“…Partly inspired by acknowledgement that conventional user-centred design methods may not provide a full picture, designers have in the past decade stepped away from solely using conventional product and service design, and more recently explored approaches including design futuring, design fiction (Hebrok & Mainsah, 2022), design activism (Julier, 2013), speculative design (Dunne & Raby, 2013), (norm-) critical design, and norm-creative design. (But how to see narratives explicitly as both an element of the toolbox and/or as part of solution spaces is still ill-explored.…”

Section: Less Conventional Approaches Towards User Insightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

About utopias, apocalypses, respawning and zombies and how understanding images of space and time may inform Ddesign for sustainable behaviour

Guersenzvaig,

Casacuberta

2023

Connectivity and Creativity in Times of Conflict

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This paper presents justification for, and experimentation with an artistic method designed to help designers better understand how people imagine time, and connect this consciously or subconsciously to their norms, values and intentions which ultimately shape their behaviour. Four monologues were created, put on video, and a pilot experiment suggest high potential for further development of this artistic method, extending the designer's toolbox to identify points of interventions when designing for sustainable behaviour.

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Skinny as a Bird: Design fiction as a vehicle for reflecting on food futures

Cited by 9 publications

References 45 publications

Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements

Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements

A Toolbox for Addressing Shame in Design Projects

About utopias, apocalypses, respawning and zombies and how understanding images of space and time may inform Ddesign for sustainable behaviour

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