Designing for a city of lies

Rosenbak, Søren

doi:10.1145/3210604.3214363

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“…In our work to craft invitations to un/make matters that have emerged in the aftermath we draw on approaches and perspectives from participatory design, speculative design and an emerging body of work that combines these two fields (see for example the following exploratory papers, workshops and situated actions from the two most recent participatory design conferences [3,15,17,32,33]). This paper will not provide a comprehensive map of this emerging body of work.…”

Section: Participation and Speculation In And Through Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The practice of un/making will be explored through two projects, that are situated within an emerging body of work that combines participatory design with speculative design [3,15,17,32]. While these two projects have slightly different set ups, they both invite to engage with new and still speculative proposals for how to engage with the aftermath of previous designs.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Un/Making in the Aftermath of Design

Lindström

Ståhl

2020

Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1

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This paper takes as its starting point the fact that we live in the aftermath of previous making and design. For participatory design to adequately answer to this aftermath, we suggest building on a combination of participatory and speculative design approaches in everyday life settings and exploring the practice of un/making matters. The paper draws on two cases where participants have been invited to engage with recent scientific findings and practices -one where they explore the practice of un/making plastic waste through composting, and one on un/making polluted soil through plants that can accumulate metals. By not primarily aiming at feeding into new iterations of a design process, there is an openness for speculating beyond the given systems, and to bring into question imaginaries of constant progress, which have been part of generating these lingering matters.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Un/Making in the Aftermath of Design

Lindström

Ståhl

2020

Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 1

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“…'Pataphysics has previously made its appearance in scholarly discourse as well. Rosenbak [77] used the lens of 'pataphysics to consider smart city design by utilizing lies about cities as a way to imagine urban futures, while also applying 'pataphysics to design processes [78] [79]. Raczinsky and colleagues [75] designed a 'pataphysical search engine as a way to engage with questions of creativity in something as mundane as online search.…”

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'Pataphysical Software

Sicart

Shklovski

2020

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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These days, whether the problem is climate change or boredom, there is an app for that. The rhetoric of problem and solution, accelerated by commercial needs and salvific tech gurus, implies that software can save the world. This paper wants to start a movement/rebellion against the ubiquitous equation of P(problem) + S(software) = S(solution) as a rational approach to the ailments of this world. We question the technological effort to "playfully" afford order and control to humans through the provision of computational rules. Instead, we propose an alternative approach: designing 'pataphysical software to address familiar but ultimately imaginary problems. Defined by poet Alfred Jarry, 'pataphysics is the science of imaginary problems. Adopting the methods of 'pataphysics, we have developed mobile applications that explore invented problems and provide no solutions for them. We demonstrate how such an approach allows us to ask design questions through an aesthetic 'pataphysical practice of software development.

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“…In the face of this, numerous articles in this cluster explore how to foster higher degrees of imagination. Rosenbak (2018) argues that to imagine a city's future, it is crucial first to understand its present. To do so, Rosenbak suggests focusing not on what the city is but exploring what the city is not, for example, by encouraging citizens to share lies about their city, which can then be used to imagine and prototype alternative urban futures.…”

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Experiments in thinking otherwise: Embracing tensions in designing sustainable futures

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