Sensing energy: Forming stories through speculative design artefacts

Broms, Loove; Wangel, Josefin; Andersson, Camilla

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.06.025

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“…For this, we draw inspiration from provocative design approaches such as critical and speculative design [3,11] to create interventions in the form of provotypes -prototypes that use provocation to explore design possibilities for the future [7]. Other research through design studies have illustrated that speculative [8] or provocative [30] designs can be used to steer practices towards sustainability.…”

Section: Hygge Research Through Design and Provocationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Hygge as a Desirable Design Vision for the Sustainable Smart Home

Jensen

Strengers

Raptis

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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In this paper, we present an exploratory study of hygge as a low-energy design vision for the smart home. Hygge is a Danish concept that embodies aesthetic experiences related to conviviality, often shaped by orchestrating atmospheres through low-level lighting. To explore this vision, we probe two Australian households that already live with smart home lighting technology. We report on household reflections of embedding hygge into everyday life. We conclude by outlining future directions for exploring desirable and sustainable smart home visions.

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Section: Hygge Research Through Design and Provocationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Hygge as a Desirable Design Vision for the Sustainable Smart Home

Jensen

Strengers

Raptis

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…The findings from this research places the tool in contrast to most existing eco-design tools [21], and instead aligns it with the FEEI approach described by Tyl et al [24]. Relatively few examples exist of the application of speculative design [50] to the imagining of sustainable futures [30,51,52], though in common with this previous work the nature of the PSS scenarios generated through the CIM tool means they do not provide definitive 'answers' to circular design problems; rather they illustrate possible futures that cause questioning of assumptions and act as the starting point for future investigations.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Consumer Intervention Mapping—A Tool for Designing Future Product Strategies within Circular Product Service Systems

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Re-distributed manufacturing presents a number of opportunities and challenges for New Product Development in a future Circular Economy. It has been argued that small-scale, flexible and localised production systems will reduce resource consumption, lower transport emissions and extend product lifetimes. At the same time smart products within the Internet of Things will gather and report data on user behaviour and product status. Many sustainable design tools have previously been developed but few are able to imagine and develop visions of how future sustainable product service systems might be manifested. This paper introduces the concept of Consumer Intervention Mapping as a tool for creating future product strategies. The tool visualises the points within a product's lifecycle where stakeholders are able to intervene in the product's expected journey. This perspective enables the rapid construction of scenarios that explore and describe future circular product service systems. Validation of the tool in three workshops is described and the outcomes are presented. Consumer Intervention Mapping is successful in creating scenarios that describe existing product service systems and new product concepts adapted to a Circular Economy paradigm. Further work is required to refine the tool's performance in more focused and reflective design exercises.

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“…(Raven 2017, p.). Through presenting a speculative 'what if' future, such as an interstitial practice scaled up, 'as if' it was real, the border between what is perceived as fiction and what is 'real' becomes thinner, and what was previously seen as impossible can become possible, or even preferable (Broms et al 2017). The design speculations thus work as a kind of 'future archaeology': "Just as archeologists describe societies based on the artifacts left behind, we can describe societies in terms of more or less fictional artifactsand conversely, identify the artifacts that would enable us to realise a desired society" (Dahlbom 2002, p.35).…”

Section: Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Underdome Guide to Energy Reform portrays 48 stylized and typologised ways to organise housing and related energy production and use (Kim & Carver 2015), connecting practices to architecture, urban planning and governance (although not fleshing out practices to any larger degree). In Sensing Energy (Broms et al 2017) design-driven research was used to explore and represent how a sustainable energy system could manifest in an urban environment, should sustainability be defined as a matter of sufficiency rather than efficiency.…”

Section: Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%