The IKEA Catalogue

Brown, Barry; Bleecker, Julian; D'Adamo, Marco; Ferreira, Pedro; Formo, Joakim; Glöss, Mareike; Holm, Maria; Höök, Kristina; Johnson, Eva-Carin Banka; Kaburuan, Emil Robert; Karlsson, Anna; Vaara, Elsa Kosmack; Laaksolahti, Jarmo; Lampinen, Airi; Leahu, L.; Lewandowski, Vincent; McMillan, Donald C.; Mellbratt, Anders; Mercurio, Johanna; Norlin, Cristian; Nova, Nicolas; Pizza, Stefania; Rostami, Asreen; Sundquist, Mårten; Tollmar, Konrad; Tsaknaki, Vasiliki; Wang, Jinyi; Windlin, Charles; Ydholm, Mikael

doi:10.1145/2957276.2957298

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“…Designers Dunne and Raby, for example, present a series of protective devices meant to guard a user from harmful electromagnetic waves emanating from household appliances [26]. Brown et al reimagine the familiar IKEA Catalogue [13], promotional material from the large multi-national furniture corporation. Through seemingly ordinary images and product descriptions, the designers' speculative intervention reveals itself as broad datafication of generic domestic environments familiar to many readers.…”

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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: Introductionmentioning

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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“…The fictional character of these artefacts and their future temporality free designers and participants from the constraints of present technology and encourages the emergence of visions, values and prejudices about the present. One reference used in this study is the IKEA catalogue (Brown et al, 2016); a publication created to confronting readers with dilemmas that digitalization and big data could bring about. A key element of the fictional products and services offered in the catalogue is to show trade-offs.…”

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The wardrobe as a system: exploring clothing consumption through design fiction

Stappers

Maldini

2019

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This study offers a new perspective on clothing consumption by uncovering the systemic nature of the wardrobe. The research builds on systems theory and aims at drawing a map of the wardrobe as a system with particular structure and behaviour. By co-designing fictional "smart wardrobe" services with experts and discussing these services with wardrobe users, we identify characteristics of wardrobe structure and behaviour that give input for a preliminary wardrobe map. Lastly, the wardrobe map provides a basis for discussing sustainable design approaches aimed at reducing clothing demand, in the context of growing clothing production volume and its associated environmental impacts.

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“…Design fiction [20] addresses such challenges by creating descriptions of fictional futures expressed as everyday artefacts, such product catalogues, newspaper articles, technical manuals and so forth. A recent example is the Internet of Things vision seen through an IKEA Catalogue produced at Mobile Life Centre [7]. In relation to designing MRPs, the fictional framing of design fiction can encourage playfulness, experimentation and the consideration of challenging, strange and otherwise unorthodox uses of technology -which might, in turn, facilitate more creative ideation.…”

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Design Fiction for Mixed-Reality Performances

Rostami

Rossitto

Barkhuus

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Designing for mixed-reality performances is challenging both in terms of technology design, and in terms of understanding the interplay between technology, narration, and (the outcomes of) audience interactions. This complexity also stems from the variety of roles in the creative team often entailing technology designers, artists, directors, producers, set-designers and performers. In this multidisciplinary, one-day workshop, we seek to bring together HCI scholars, designers, artists, and curators to explore the potential provided by Design Fiction as a method to generate ideas for Mixed-Reality Performance (MRP) through various archetypes including scripts, programs, and posters. By drawing attention to novel interactive technologies, such as bio-sensors and environmental IoT, we seek to generate design fiction scenarios capturing the aesthetic and interactive potential for mixed-reality performances, as well as the challenges to gain access to audience members' data -i.e.

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The IKEA Catalogue

Cited by 63 publications

References 4 publications

Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds

Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds

The wardrobe as a system: exploring clothing consumption through design fiction

Design Fiction for Mixed-Reality Performances

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