The life and death of critical and speculative design: post-disciplinarity, post-truth, post-self and post-capital

Ward, Matt

doi:10.14361/9783839461044-017

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“…However, one of the critical comments is that speculative design, in practice, fails to address underlying structural problems. Furthermore, speculative design, originally intended to provoke debate and discussion from the public, is criticized for only sparking debate among closed design communities (Malpass, 2013;Ward, 2019). The criticism that speculative design practices only echo inside the design community goes hand in hand with the "gallery problem," (Hanna, 2019) which points out that speculative design projects only lie in academia and gallery without engaging with the real world.…”

Section: Speculative Design and Its Criticismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Black Mirror: A Novel Application of Speculative Design to Facilitate Context-Aware Design Thinking

Jung,

Makam,

Jung

et al. 2023

Proc. Des. Soc.

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As design thinking became popularized, practitioners in the field pointed out that design thinking rarely takes stakeholders and contexts into account as a result of focusing solely on end-users. We believe such a limitation can be complemented with speculative design, which critiques the future that an idea depicts and interrogates relationships with social, cultural, economical, and political systems. This paper, through pilot interviews with 10 participants and a thematic analysis on interviews with 12 participants, explores possible interaction between design thinking and speculative and critical depiction of the future. Speculative and critical inquiries allowed the participants to consider various social contexts and stakeholders, and further helped them shape and brainstorm the ideas’ potential values and challenges faced during adoption. The overall critical speculation influenced various steps of the design thinking process. The paper contributes to the literature by reporting a novel application of speculative design to the conventional design thinking process. In the future, we hope to further explore other elements of speculative design and their impact on design outcomes.

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Section: Speculative Design and Its Criticismmentioning

confidence: 99%