Interacting with Climate Change: A Survey of HCI and Design Projects and Their Use of Transmedia Storytelling

HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures

“…Research in this area has focused on making sense of climate data, grounding it in more relatable experiences and understandable narrative forms. For example, by combining citizens' lived experiences with objective data on air quality [16], looking at the role of grassroots data collection in unsetting official narratives of crisis and disaster [14], and engaging with art [12] or with interactive and transmedia storytelling [9]. Building upon the Data Humanism manifesto 1 by Giorgia Lupi, which proposes an analysis of stories as small data (i.e., imperfect, subjective, inspiring, serendipitous), we can get glimpses of how to translate the complexity of the world, its open possibilities, people, humans.…”

“…For instance, climate change scenarios created through modeling techniques could be enriched with insights coming from speculative reflections on alternative futures. Speculative methods and practices, such as the future cone and design fiction [9], have been recognized for bringing several benefits to HCI, such as encouraging participatory discourse about sustainability and the future, improving awareness, and questioning values and ethics behind current practices, investigating topics that carry uncertainty, such as future scenarios and other-than-human perspectives [23]. In our view, there is a need for expanding this research domain to explore better the potential of envisioning methods for policymakers to make decisions for the common good.…”