Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco (un)disciplinary tactics 2026-01-12T22:15:15+00:00 https://nearfuturelaboratory.com/library/2024/12/beatriz-da-costa-undisciplinary-tactics/ robertogreco beatrizdacosta designfiction julianbleecker 2026 undisciplinary activism publicengagement interdisciplinary art technology socialchange tacticalbiopolitics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8f1efa44159d/ Near Future Laboratory Newsletter 2025-11-27T06:30:15+00:00 https://nearfuturelaboratory.com/newsletters/2025/w48-y25/ robertogrecoThis reflection was prompted by Episode 006: The Rumour That Cost Thirty-Five Billion Dollars and Created A Data Center Radar [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/006-the-rumour-that-cost-thirty-five-billion-dollars/id1829175205?i=1000732105524 ] from Radha and Tobias' “Futurish” podcast which gets into hyperstition in the context of a real-world rumor. Give it a listen! Oh, and parenthetically, if you want a weird “Wayne's World”-like podcast on Mark Fisher you might be interested in these guys who are like Brick and Brack arm chair interpreters of Fisher's work: Lost Futures: A Mark Fisher Podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lost-futures-a-mark-fisher-podcast/id1685663806 ]. These guys are as infuriating as they are entertaining, perhaps without knowing they are either. “Popularized” might be overstating things a bit as the CCRU was always a bit of an obscure, anonymous and underground affair. More punk that trad academic, I would say. But the idea of hyperstition has since been taken up by various thinkers and writers interested in the intersections of culture, technology, and speculative fiction. It's relevant to the kinds of discussions we have here and a pathway to connecting material reality to fiction — or how to begin becoming future. For those who are Fisherarians, as in Mark Fisher-arian, the late cultural theorist and writer who explored themes of capitalism, culture, and ideology, hyperstition is a concept that resonates with his work. Fisher often discussed how certain cultural phenomena and narratives could shape societal beliefs and behaviors, aligning with the idea of hyperstition as a force that can influence reality through its circulation and acceptance. I was certainly influenced by Fisher's writing and lectures, introduced to him indiretly during my studies at UCSC in the early 1990s where and when I was trying to develop some kind of scaffolding that could be erected such as to contain the kinds of cultural objects I was boyishly fascinated with — computers, software, games, etc. — and their meaning beyond “whoa..cool!”. An engineer encountering the often in my mind abstract cultural theories of Deleuze and Guattari, Zizek, Haraway, Jameson and others, this seemed a fun and challenging way to ground them to popular discourse. Fisher's exploration of how culture and ideology intersected with capitalism and technology provided a framework for understanding the dynamics of contemporary society, and undergirded a batch of work I did on the video games SimCity™ and Daryl Gates' Police Quest IV: Open Season The structure of this combination of hype and superstition is a useful way to think about how certain ideas or narratives can gain traction and influence reality. It suggests that when a concept is widely circulated and believed, it can create a feedback loop that reinforces its own existence and impact. This can be seen in various cultural phenomena, such as conspiracy theories, urban legends, or even technological trends, where the belief in the idea itself contributes to its manifestation in the real world. Understanding the pheneonmon of hyperstition can provide insights into how cultural narratives shape our perceptions of reality and influence our actions. It highlights the power of belief and storytelling in shaping the world around us, and the ways in which fiction can become intertwined with reality through collective acceptance and action. Beyond understanding the pheneomenon, we might want to operationalize the principles, right? I mean — if this is a kind of lever or monkey wrench how might we use it to our advantage? How can you tell stories about worlds you want to inhabit, or engage in, or debate and discuss? And how can you do that if your primary gifts and medium are not prose-based story telling? Can you do this through design, through objects, through events, through experiences? These are questions that the Near Future Laboratory has been exploring for decades now through design fiction, speculative design, and other practices that seek to create tangible representations of possible futures. This goes beyond abstraction speculation because I actually prototype in material. Not just ideas but things that can be held, used, experienced, and that form the basis for product design, concept development, and strategic foresight. By crafting artifacts, scenarios, and experiences that embody speculative ideas, we can help ourselves and our organizations see the unseen opportunities and test new concepts in a way that is more engaging and impactful than traditional methods of ideation or brainstorming. Want to discover more about how this approach to design fictional prototyping can help your team and organization gain a bit of future sight? Get in touch and let's have a conversation about how we can work together to explore the futures you want to create."]]> julianbleecker designfiction hyperstition markfisher ai artificialintelligence slowai ccru nearfuturelaboratory 1990s capitalism culture ideology félizguattari zizek donnaharaway fredericjameson technology ucsc deleuze&guattari gillesdeleuze https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d10e0749a3ed/ Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination, by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby (2025) 2025-04-09T21:56:53+00:00 https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049665/not-here-not-now/ robertogreco speculativedesign designfiction 2025 anthonydunne fionaraby design https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:32a071537209/ 070. Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy: The Design Practice | Remake Podcast | Design, Systems, and Society 2024-01-20T21:39:12+00:00 https://remakepod.org/episode/070-che-wei-wang-and-taylor-levy-the-design-practice robertogreco cw&t taylorlevy che-weiwang making 2023 design prototyping time sfpc schoolforpoeticcomputation openness creativity speculativedesign designfiction timekeeping watches clocks casio f-91w howwework howwelive timesincelaunch solidstatewatch nasa johnglenn dariuskazemi midjourney stablediffusion alaindebotton xoxo tokyuhands thebeatles cooper-hewitt timetelling stopwatches gmttime spacetravel crt criticalracetheory sexed power timepassage timepassing cooperhewitt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:06e86f4d07dc/ Personal Machines and Portable Worlds - Christopher Butler 2023-07-09T19:58:31+00:00 https://www.chrbutler.com/personal-machines-and-portable-worlds robertogreco“My book is so much about how technology dictates culture. The devices that we use aren’t just accessories to culture or windows that we consume things through; they are collaborators, gateways, and molds…the idea of a personal computer had to be invented, manufactured, and marketed. We had to imagine computers as personal machines.” This is an important point. We could live in a world where computing is a public works — where terminals to central processing work like telephones used to. You can pick them up or put them down, but nothing inside of them is yours. But we don’t live in that world. As soon as the first computer booted up in the first home, the computer became a personal object. And when an object becomes personal, it is difficult to leave it behind. We want it with us. Perhaps that one thing — a simple desire for a personal machine — set us on the course we have followed since. Not Moore’s Law, not Capitalism, but personhood. Later, in the same post, Chayka writes of the Palm Pilot — an early attempt at portable computing — that, despite it not providing much in the way of “fun” features for a kid, there was still an “ineffable appeal to holding a gateway to a digital world in your hand.” A world. There’s that word again. Why a world? There is a sense of dimensional transcendence to computers. As C.S. Lewis wrote of the wardrobe, “It’s inside is bigger than its outside.” In the early days of mobile computing, it was hard to not compare the capaciousness of a computer you could carry with you to something like a book. Of both you could say their insides were bigger than their outsides, but when it came to information, you’d have to settle for figurative capaciousness in a book; their actual contents are literally cover to cover. A digital machine’s contents are an entirely different thing. In the time of the Palm Pilot, a tiny door to a vast digital world was more powerful as an idea than a tool. The digital world just wasn’t as big back then as it is now. But to Chayka’s first point, we built the digital world using these little devices that didn’t do very much. We made it worth the journey. And meanwhile, the object was our companion, and inside was a tiny, personal digital world — our notes, our messages, our few digital texts. It was not much, but it was ours." ... "Many of the examples I’ve looked at so far align with my ideas of what makes a machine personal because they were designed with limitations imposed upon them, and many of the examples I’ve discussed that no longer feel personal have been designed to surpass those limitations. If machines were designed to be more personal, we’d have very different machines. Sometimes it feels like it is simply a matter of whether a machine is connected to the internet or not. But of course it’s more than that. It’s as much about what we do with our machines as it is about what they were designed to do. I think we can still experience the personal machine by choosing to experience a machine that way. In a way, the continued popularity of vinyl is a good example of this. For the same price as a single record, you can get several months of access to more music than you could ever hear in that time. Still, some people choose records over digital files. It’s too easy to dismiss this as an affectation. It’s a choice to experience music in a particular way. It’s also a choice of a personal machine — a record player rather than a phone. One benefit of personal technology reaching the maturity it has is the abundance of choices. It may seem like you must use an iPhone — perhaps everyone you know and care about is group messaging with iMessage — but you can choose something else. Every choice has benefits and costs. Ten years ago, I chose to leave Facebook. The benefits were many; the costs were not having easy access to where people I cared about shared information I wanted to know. A few years ago, I stopped using an e-reader — I had used a Kindle, and then a Kobo, both great machines. The cost was no longer being able to send articles from the web to my machine and reading them, as well as books, in bed. The benefit was not having too many choices in front of me when I just want to read one thing. I went back to the printed book. You could say that’s as much of an affectation in 2023 as playing a vinyl record. Maybe. But it’s a choice. I haven’t owned a laptop for many years. My primary machine is a Mac Mini set up in my home office. The cost is I can’t work from my couch or the local coffee shop. The benefit is I have some separation in my life between work and not work. For me, these choices turn using the same machines everyone uses into a more personal experience." ... "I also notice that when I look at these older machines and the old media they use, I often find myself feeling like I’m looking at a door to a world. I look at a book — there’s a world. Every playable disc in our house — each a world. Once you become accustomed to worldspotting, you can see them in anything. Every object is a world. In the World; of the Worlds Perhaps the days of personal machines are over. Maybe the complexities that Mau and his cohort wrote about are not safely reducible. Maybe we can’t decomplexify the world of things. Maybe. And if we can, I wouldn’t dare imagine it could happen quickly. But if we can, where do we start? What do we look at? What do we use again, despite there being sleeker, faster, frictionless options available? What limits do we embrace so that we can re-balance the human with the machine? I have spent the last few years slowly disconnecting in various ways. I’ve chosen to use things that only do a part of what readily available alternatives do and more. I’ve chosen to stop using some things altogether. I have found that these choices have enhanced my experiences because they’ve supported true insight; they’ve helped me be more aware of what I’m doing, why I’m doing it, and who I am becoming. I have found that they change the world because they change my world. Jung said that in each of us is another. I think that in each of us is another world. A good personal machine reveals that world and helps us shape it."]]> christopherbutler whatisacomputer porability computers computing objects 2023 personal personalmachines machines gadgets communication expression imagination toys technology laptops smartphones phones purpose utility entertainment infinitude devices audiencesofone portals identity exploration legendofzelda zelda worldbuilding brucemau massivechange complexity institutewithoutboundaries potential thoreau simplicity human humans balance invention creation distraction attention waste want voyeurism kylechayka personhood palmpilot capitalism mooreslaw worlds companions maremecum vademecum designfiction sciencefiction scifi projectara robinsloan marydoriarussell quantumleap limitations constraints choice kindle kobo iphone tradeoffs limits facebook disconnecting carljung jung https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8225eb3c6c52/ Near Future Laboratory Podcast: N°069 - Dr. Delfina Fantini van Ditmar — A Not Too Comfortable Future on Apple Podcasts 2023-06-04T18:02:17+00:00 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n-069-dr-delfina-fantini-van-ditmar-a-not-too/id1546452193?i=1000614770313 robertogreco delfinafantinivanditmar 2023 nearfuturelaboratory julianbleecker future biology speculativefiction designfiction chile nicanorparra https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ab9554044067/ Urban Technology at University of Michigan week 140 2023-04-09T03:39:18+00:00 https://urbantechnology.substack.com/p/urban-technology-at-university-of-287 robertogreco julianbleecker designfiction 2023 design manuals startrek archaeology objects storytelling imagination gabrieleferri bryanboyer speculativedesign speculativefiction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0ba0c581f372/ Near Future Laboratory Podcast: N°063 - Imagining the Future of the Imagination Academy with Will Richardson on Apple Podcasts 2023-03-01T18:59:22+00:00 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n-063-imagining-the-future-of-the-imagination/id1546452193?i=1000600664067 robertogreco nearfuturelaboratory julianbleecker willrichardson solarpunk edupunk covid-19 coronavirus pandemic designfiction designthinking schools schooling children education learning howweteach howwelearn 2023 creativity imagination change transformation unschooling deschooling antidisciplinary transdisciplinary optimism punk statusquo bigquestionsinstitute multispecies morethanhuman economics midjourney ai artificialintelligence activism organizing narrative publishing selfpublishing zachstein liminality discord compulsory agency internet self-directed self-directedlearning youtube tiktok margaretmead self-organizing zakstein zacharystein drélabre future futurism books ebooks futuree futurists sciencefiction scifi cyberpunk neuralimplants indigenous indigeneity self-publishing liminal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b9a597be330c/ Dark Laboratory 2020-11-07T14:20:06+00:00 https://www.darklaboratory.com/ robertogreco film indigenous black media multimedia sound mediaecologies taoleighgoffe jeffreypalmer ruhabenjamin fredmoten simonebrowne tamarevangelistadougherty henrylouisgatesjr stanleynelson claudiarankine tracyrector kamalsinclair tracysmith circestrum evetuck celestelayne mimionuoha markpalmer tiffanylethaboking eddiebruce-jones jannesalo pauljosephlópezoro sydneyskybetter benplatt ariellaazoulay isissemaj-hall sarahjanecervenak gaiagoffe rynstafford matthooley joshuebennett jkameroncarter adomphilogeneheron storytelling plantations livedexperience oralhistory choreography gesture philosophy indigeneity music futurism speculativedesign designfiction design diaspora games gaming videogames newmedia humanities morethanhuman multispecies cornell survivance bloodmemory abolition abolitionism race rural land landback inquiry multidisciplinary interdisciplinary transdisciplinary song dance tradition darklaboratory afro-indigeneity lullabies landscape erasure citation relationality vr fiction speculativefiction ecology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2819731ec69a/ More-Than-Human Lab. » What I mean when I talk about more-than-human design 2020-03-13T20:47:21+00:00 http://morethanhumanlab.org/blog/2020/02/07/what-i-mean-when-i-talk-about-more-than-human-design/ robertogrecoI’m not trying to say that anyone is “more” or “less” (than) human, but explicitly recognising that the world has never been a place made only, or even primarily, of or for humans. While this isn’t a radical notion for many researchers, I’m trying to teach design from an anthropological perspective and I like that it encourages me to poke at both anthropology and human-centred design and see what falls apart. I found my way to design through my archaeological and anthropological experience with material, visual, and discursive culture, and the recognition that culture is actively created and recreated by persons in these more-than-human worlds. I’m not fond of professional design’s problem-solving imperative or reliance on technoindustrial metaphors, but I am utterly captivated by world-building and thing-making. My favourite design tool is speculation. It isn’t required for more-than-human design but I have a lifelong love of speculative fiction, and to design within that general framework appeals to me in many ways. Besides its obvious capacity to imagine different ways of being with others, I find it well-suited for intervening in difficult or messy relations between people and nonhuman animals.
Fiction affords people space to think or act differently without the terribly fraught ethics of designed — through expectation or force — behaviour change.
While I’ve spent the last five years doing ethnographic fieldwork and re-thinking human-livestock relations, the design courses I teach have moved further and further away from human-centred approaches. For example, last year I taught a course in multispecies design ethnography and although our “client” was Wellington Zoo, I stressed the importance of designing with the otters and for otter-human relations (and questioning what that actually means). In my speculative design course, students were tasked with re-imagining kinship in ways that explicitly include, and so ethically bind us to, nonhumans. While some excellent design/researchers use the phrase “more than human” to refer to a range of technologies, my interests remain in the multispecies or environmental realm. This doesn’t mean that technology is irrelevant; it’s important for me to assess the political and ethical implications of any technology that attempts to mediate human relations with other forms of life. My research simply focusses on farmed animal life because I think that how we relate to, and with, these animals have an enormous impact on their well-being, human well-being, and the well-being of the Earth.
Agriculture is also one of humanity’s most heavily designed activities, which should remind us that it can be re-designed, and needs to be re-designed when it stops working for all of us.
But I’m not a believer that technology under capitalism will be the planet’s salvation, and I tend to part ways with (commercial?) designers and technologists who aim to design more “precision” agriculture through “intelligent” machines, and I’m constantly watching for bad omens. The ethos of the More-Than-Human Lab draws on Donna Haraway’s “staying with the trouble” and tries to go beyond the design of human-nonhuman interactions to reimagine human-nonhuman relations. For me, this means not trying to “fix” the world, and resisting both purity and progress to live well together through uncertain and difficult circumstances. The deep irony (?!) is that indigenous cultures all around the world and many non-Western religions have always understood that nature and culture aren’t separate, and that humans aren’t superior in our abilities or experiences. Western intellectual history and industrial capitalist societies have not allowed this kind of thinking to take hold except for amongst a fringe few, and I think this has played a pivotal role in the current climate crisis and the impoverished range of corrective measures on offer.
I’m inspired by anyone who is trying to figure out how more vital, embodied, and inter-dependent traditions can be brought into situated practice.
Right now I’m drawing sustenance from ecological and political theology, cosmopolitics and animism. When it comes to design, I’ve long admired the work of Superflux (amongst many others!) and I’ve most recently enjoyed Arturo Escobar’s Designs for the Pluriverse. Laura McLaughlan – in her paper at the most recent Australian Anthropological Society conference – said that “Ethnographers walk through landscapes both soft and hard.” I noted it because it struck me as both literally and metaphorically true. We do walk through a lot of landscapes, and both the going and the ground are often so much harder than expected. And yet along the way there are always spaces and moments of gentleness or softness that provide relief and comfort. I don’t know anyone who suggests that tenderness is our only viable option, but many of us refuse to hand it over to those who would render it weak. I’m committed to using ethnography and everyday design to restore and support more situated, intimate, and vulnerable relations between humans and farmed animals. In a world dominated by the mass production and consumption of nonhuman animal life, these kinds of relations are often dismissed as sentimental or naïve. But in my experience they require a great deal of strength and a practical willingness to both hurt and be hurt. This is central to my personal committment to be with the world, instead of against it. I also believe that a full, rich experience of humanity in more-than-human worlds is already being lived by billions and I wish that even more could experience it. But please don’t mistake this for an attempt to convert you! In dire times it may be tempting to conjure all too familiar utopias and dystopias, but I’m interested in reconnecting with violence, suffering, decay and death as part of life, entangled with all the love, beauty, and wonder. As humanity, and the planet, face the climate crisis I’m interested in protecting (and, if necessary, reclaiming) the kind of ethical relations with animals and lands that can take us down a different path. No one knows if this path will avoid the same end, but I’m hopeful. Our small farmstead is my living experiment in what kinds of relations are possible with the animals I care for, and sometimes eat. Watching a lamb take her first breath, and a year later holding her with love as I kill her has profoundly changed the way I see myself and the world around me—not to mention how others see me!
The sheep have taught me to slow down, and to look and listen more carefully. They’ve taught me humility and patience and strength, both physical and emotional. That there is such a thing as caring too little, and too much. The sheep have taught me to fight more playfully, and to always choose kindness.
And I bring all of this experience to my understanding and practice of more-than-human design. Many thanks to our cats Enid Coleslaw and Beatrix Lemonade, the sheep Ursula, Grace, Mercy, Emmaline, Victoria, Glory, Melvin & Mingus, Edith, Ulla & Ulrich, Gus, Max & Murray, Esther and Eddard (Ned), Maeve, Godric and Gregor Samsa, and to all the ducks and ducklings."]]> annegalloway 2020 morethanhuman multispecies design kindness animals sheep cats farming farms designfiction fiction superflux arturoescobar lauramclaughlan animism cosmopolitics ecology interdependence interconnectedness politicaltheology humanism posthumanism humanity anthropology interconnectivity interconnected https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c8bf5bc4e71/ How big tech hijacked its sharpest, funniest critics - MIT Technology Review 2020-02-25T12:08:32+00:00 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615190/how-big-tech-hijacked-its-sharpest-funniest-critics/ robertogreco designfiction design speculativedesign 2020 timmaughan julianbleecker brucesterling scifi sciencefiction prototyping capitalism superflux anabjain art saschapohflepp nearfuturelaboratory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3d1fe8b754ff/ Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics - Anab Jain - Medium 2020-02-25T06:12:23+00:00 https://medium.com/@anabjain/calling-for-a-more-than-human-politics-f558b57983e6 robertogrecoanabjain superflux designfiction speculativefiction speculativedesign criticalthinking howwethink futurism making anthropocene planning gardening donnaharaway brunolatour annegalloway timingold irisduhn robinkimmerer vandanashiva ursulaleguin fiction fictions howwewrite doriansagan kimstanleyrobinson thedithering interdependence precarity terrestrial global certainty contingency assemblages systems growth nuture nurturing care caring fixing engendering producing innovation resurgence notes knots independence unschooling deschooling politics morethanhuman diy capitalism latecapitalism climatechange isabellestengers laurenberlant adriangeorge honorharger hyperobjects ecology socialchange interconnectedness interconnected activism joséluisdevicente annalowenhaupttsing annatsing timothymorton interconnectivity ursulakleguin latestagecapitalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:20d131f225eb/ On Design Fiction: Close, But No Cigar - Near Future Laboratory 2020-01-10T21:53:40+00:00 http://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2019/10/23/on-design-fiction-close-but-no-cigar/ robertogreco designfiction speculativedesign nearfururelaboratory 2019 brucesterling fiction sciencefiction artifacts objects design definition writing howwewrite making anthropology ethnography film filmmaking video decisionmaking prototyping futures futurism shortstories storytelling implications nicolasnova julianbleecker nickfoster fabiengirardin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:792173797015/ Anab Jain | Imagining What the Future Looks Like | SkollWF 2019 - YouTube 2020-01-09T21:35:40+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tf7T2TySG0 robertogreco anabjain 2019 superflux future futurism designfiction speculativefiction speculativedesign design futures fiction 1984 georgeorwell fakenews politics donaldtrump storytelling reality perception narrative sensemaking weaksignals emotions memory memories antiicipation nearfuture experience simulation simulations ethnography anthropology emergingtechnologies complexity makingsense https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0f36134e98c2/ ‘San Diego 2049’ offers a glimpse of possible futures - San Diego CityBeat 2019-06-02T22:37:12+00:00 http://sdcitybeat.com/culture/features/%E2%80%98san-diego-2049%E2%80%99-offers-a-glimpse-of-possible-futures/ robertogreco sandiego ucsd specialization designfiction speculativedesign 2049 border borders us mexico 2019 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b16160c3b48c/ SpeculativeEdu | Superflux: Tools and methods for making change 2019-02-19T21:32:27+00:00 http://speculativeedu.eu/interview-superflux/ robertogreco superflux 2019 anabjain jonardern jamesauger design designfiction speculativefiction speculativedesign capitalism democracy climatechange education marrtive film filmmaking art artists potential inquiry open-ended openendedness hope globalwarming future politics activism india colonialism colonization complexity privilege openended https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4116979dd678/ Refiguring the Future Conference | Day One - YouTube 2019-02-10T23:29:30+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwgwRdxQtI4 robertogreco eyebeam dorothysantos lolamartinez maandeegmohamed liberation art events 2019 heatherdewey-hagborg shawnémichaelainholloway rasheedahphillips alexanderwehelive zachblas ecology ecologies sofíacórdova sofíaunanue jaskirandhillon lamaraña speculativefiction designfiction keeangayamahtta-taylor michacárdenas blacklivesmatter gender race sexuality citizenship future inclusions inclusivity health genomics speculativedesign design arts pinaryoldas kadijaferryman glitchfeminism feminism clairepentecost heyleycranbery anneligoeller yo-yolin cyntihiamalone climatechange globalwarming eugenics racism science scientificracism oppression systemsthinking activism climatefiction junipoole accessibility legacyrussell technology digital disability worldbuilding bodies biotechnology morehshinallahyari queer decolonization anti-racist ableism abti-ableism leeblalock abrahamavnisan virginiabarratt francescadarimini marymaggic lauranmccarthy marthapentecost sonyarapoport barakadésoleil sputniko! tomominishiz https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d39e427f7a50/ Solarpunking Speculative Futures — Cultural Anthropology 2018-12-20T06:08:34+00:00 https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1616-solarpunking-speculative-futures robertogreco solarpunk speculativefiction speculation speculative designfiction anthropology nanditabadami 2018 speculativeanthropology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5542d699e034/ Speculative Anthropologies — Cultural Anthropology 2018-12-20T06:07:08+00:00 https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1627-speculative-anthropologies robertogreco speculative anthropology speculativefiction designfiction speculation afrofuturism ecology technology immigration climatechange ryananderson emmalouisebacke taylornelms elizabethreddy jeremytrombley sallyapplin nanditabadami priyachandrasekaran davidcolón-cabrera williamlempert patriciamarkert michaeloman-reagan samuelgeraldcollins davidvalentine valerieolson matthewwolf-meyer speculativeanthropology https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1b71c95445d1/ Critical Design Fictions CSPL 225 2018-05-19T21:31:48+00:00 https://iasext.wesleyan.edu/regprod/!wesmaps_page.html?crse=015295&term=1189 robertogreco barbaraadams design designfiction 2018 classes anthonydunne fionaraby patrickparrender carrielambert-beatty paulpreciado brucesterling darkosuvin samueldelany elizabethgrosz joséestebanmuñoz ursulaleguin octaviabutler speculativefiction speculativedesign scifi sciencefiction utopia julianbleecker dunne&raby wesleyan centralization decentralization distributed inequality plurality commons hoarding ursulakleguin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a0971117e006/ Impakt Festival 2017 - Performance: ANAB JAIN. HQ - YouTube 2017-11-14T06:32:57+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o341S4xh1r0 robertogreco anabjain 2017 superflux death aging transience time temporary abundance scarcity future futurism prototyping speculativedesign predictions life living uncertainty film filmmaking design speculativefiction experimentation counternarratives designfiction futuremaking climatechange food homegrowing smarthomes iot internetofthings capitalism hope futures hopefulness data dataviz datavisualization visualization williamplayfair society economics wonder williamstanleyjevons explanation statistics wiiliambernstein prosperity growth latecapitalism propertyrights jamescscott objectivity technocrats democracy probability scale measurement observation policy ai artificialintelligence deeplearning algorithms technology control agency bias biases neoliberalism communism present past worldview change ideas reality lucagatti alextaylor unknown possibility stability annalowenhaupttsing imagination ursulaleguin truth storytelling paradigmshifts optimism annegalloway miyamotomusashi annatsing smarthome ursulakleguin latestagec https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0eae1abc104e/ EyeMyth 2017-09-30T17:00:20+00:00 https://eyemyth.unboxfestival.com/ robertogreco mumbai designfiction speculativefiction future futurism storytelling newmedia technology vr ar augmentedreality https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:201ef44916ce/ Radical Ocean Futures 2017-06-03T19:26:34+00:00 https://radicaloceanfutures.earth/ robertogreco oceans future scifi sciencefiction classideas designfiction briandavidjohnson prototyping science-fictionprototyping simonstålenhag klaluna kaitlynrathwell andrewmerrie patriciakeys marcmetian henrikösterblom https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:079a92ba53d5/ An Ikea Catalog From The Near Future – Design Fictions – Medium 2017-02-20T05:25:08+00:00 https://medium.com/design-fictions/an-ikea-catalog-from-the-near-future-e293938148bc#.6abcn9v66 robertogreco 2015 ikea designfiction speculativedesign speculativefiction internetofthings iot nearfuturelaboratory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5c263b26c639/ The Future Mundane on Vimeo 2017-02-20T03:52:16+00:00 https://vimeo.com/139358108 robertogreconickfoster design future breakage accretion 2015 scifi sciencefiction russelldavies nicolasnova context speculativedesign mundanity futuremundane designfiction speculativefiction nearfuture nearfuturelaboratory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ba7d211018d9/ Making Things, Writing Things| Prototyping as a Compositional Strategy | Syracuse University | 3 March 2016 | Jentery Sayers 2016-03-06T01:30:28+00:00 https://jentery.github.io/syracuse/#/title robertogrecojenterysayers via:ablerism 2016 making writing prototyping composition designthinking humanities research semiotics fabbing 3dprinting history archives technology cnc understanding inquiry objects danielarosner media jodyshipka karikraus conjecture computing coding ninabelojevic jonhohnson morganames matthewkirschenbaum patrickclose matthewfuller willardmccarty johannadrucker molleindustria paolopedercini daniellemorgan ianbogost maryflanagan marrittkopas tracyfullerton brucesterling designfiction hyperlit zines games gaming videogames gamification carldisalvo jonathanlukens axelroesler bethanynowviskie culture digitalhumanities hypertext twine narrative programming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a076aa015fff/ UCSD, Parsons and the Cooper Hewitt: Institutions of education and culture making a commitment to design's intellectually-oriented practice - Core77 2016-03-04T06:38:02+00:00 http://www.core77.com/posts/47064/UCSD-Parsons-and-the-Cooper-Hewitt robertogreco speculativedesign design parsons brucetharp stephanietharp jackgreenstein discursivedesign benjaminbratton mitmedialab hiromiozaki designfiction designfictiongroup sputniko!anthonydunne fionaraby dunne&raby newschool speculation daisyginsberg nerioxman anarajcevic medialab cooper-hewitt thenewschool ucsd cooperhewitt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1f586c41a296/ UCSD Speculative Design (Stream 2 - wc1080) - YouTube 2016-03-04T06:33:04+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbyIiX5mw_Y robertogreco ucsd speculativedesign art design benjaminbratton fionaraby teddycruz pedagogy california criticaldesign bauhaus materials donnaharaway speculation designfiction education https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0fab817ef19e/ Digital Manifesto Archive: Design Fiction's Odd Present vs. Science Fiction's Near Future 2016-02-18T21:03:56+00:00 http://www.digitalmanifesto.net/manifestos/212/ robertogreco manifestos designfiction speculativefiction speculativedesign design sciencefiction scifi julianbleecker optimism making play playfulness prototyping tinkering criticalmaking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6d76ce6a2f80/ Digital Manifesto Archive 2016-02-18T05:20:16+00:00 http://www.digitalmanifesto.net/manifestos/ robertogreco manifestos digital digitalhumanities archives making mattapplegate yuyin designfiction criticalmaking engineering capitalism feminism hacking hacktivism digitalmarkets digitaldiaspora internetofthings iot cyberpunk mediaecology media publishing socialmedia twitter ethics digitalculture piracy design bigdata transhumanism utopianism criticaltheory mediaarchaeology opensource openaccess technofeminism gaming digitalaesthetics digitaljournalism journalism aesthetics online internet web technocracy archaeology education afrofuturism digitalart art blogging sopa aaronswartz pipa anarchism anarchy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:015ad4d7cace/ Smart Pipe | Infomercials | Adult Swim - YouTube 2015-12-25T21:59:01+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ robertogreco adultswim designfiction 2014 data bigdata privacy smartcities internetofthings iot information connectivity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2aa34a6d08b1/ Creating Fictional Data Services and Their Implications — Design Fictions — Medium 2015-12-14T06:17:11+00:00 https://medium.com/design-fictions/creating-fictional-data-services-and-their-implications-4e821e7b20b2#.si6dcurg7 robertogreco fabiengirardin speculativefiction designfiction data fictionaldataservices 2015 prototyping dataviz datavizualiation visualization systemsthinking ecosystems https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:67118c8b51c3/ Design Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa: Post-Western Perspectives 2015-11-22T04:34:24+00:00 http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2015/11/28/Design-Futures-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa-Post-Western-Perspectives/ robertogreco designfuturism speculativedesign adrica via:anne designfiction africa 2015 cherpotter jonathanledgard ayorkorkorash kristinavandyke wesleykirinya paulacallus mugendim'rithaa elviraose davidpratten billsherman janeharris future speculativefiction design robotics gaming comuterimaging digital https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0bebf0a315a2/ Livraison vingt-quatre : PK, pagers, iPod Touch et feature phones + Lee Scratch Perry 2015-10-05T07:06:58+00:00 https://tinyletter.com/nicolasnova/letters/livraison-vingt-quatre-pk-pagers-ipod-touch-et-feature-phones-lee-scratch-perry robertogreco"L’armée allemande, si souvent décrite comme reposant sur des formations blindées, eut bien plus de chevaux durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale que n’en eut l’armée britannique durant la Grande Guerre. Le réarmement de l’Allemagne, dans les années 1930, passa par un achat massif de chevaux, au point qu’en 1939 cette armée en possédait 590 000, et en avait 3 millions d’autres en réserve dans l’ensemble du pays. […] Début 1945, la Wehrmacht disposait de 1.2 millions de chevaux ; on estime à 1.5 millions les pertes en chevaux accumulés durant la guerre." Avec ces exemples, Edgerton nous rend attentif au fait que "le temps technologique ne va pas uniquement vers l’avant"; et qu’il n’y a donc pas un bel ordonnancement chronologique. En adoptant le point de vue des usages des objets techniques, on peut regarder différents “mondes technologiques” et s’apercevoir de la diversité des pratiques. C’est un sujet qui intéresse votre correspondant dans le cadre d’un projet d’enquête sur les téléphones mobiles. En cherchant dans mes notes de terrain je suis tombés sur quelques cas de ce genre (( dans l’app Notes sur mon téléphone, j’ai une Note nommée "Livefieldnotes" dans laquelle je consigne mes observations concernant les usages des téléphones mobiles. C’est écrit à la volée sur le terrain donc avec des fautes d’orthographes et un certain laconisme )) Voici les notes en questions:
23.08.2015 - train Genève - Lausanne Un homme regarde son pager Motorola, une technologie que je pensais disparue... Mais qui semble encore exister à ce que je lis sur le site de sigmacom.ch et qui sert des "besoins professionnels" avec des èchanges de messages alphanumeriques. Il dit mystérieusement l'utiliser du fait de sa fiabilité : "ça marche partout meme dans les zones a faible reseau de telephone, le fabricant me dit que ca joue a 99% partout dans le pays" 11.08.2015 - Genève, square Chantepoulet Rencontre avec J. un chercheur suisse-allemand, qui sort ses deux telephones (un iPod Touch et un vieux Nokia), il n'a pas de data plan et dit aussi utiliser cette combinaison d’appareils "pour se proteger des distractions". Il me dit utilise le Nokia (un feature phone noir) pour les appels, et le iPod Touch pour l’accès aux apps. Et s’il a besoin d’être connecté au Web mobile pour browser ou certaines apps, il le fait dans les lieux où il y a du Wifi 8.08.2015 - Geneve, marché aux puces Discussion avec un vendeur de telephone mobile genre nokia 3210 d'occasion (30chf), se vend bien, pour les gens qui n'arrivent pas bien a utiliser les smartphone "c trop complique", par exemple me dit le vendeur dans son francais approx: "par exemple une dame qui vient et dit que son fils lui a offert un iphone et elle comprend rien... Elle m'achete ce nokia [3310] et elle sait faire, elle recoit l'appel elle appuie sur le bouton et c bon; donc j'en vends toujours un peu"
Ces exemples, pris parmi d’autres, sont intéressants à plusieurs niveaux. D’abord parce qu’il montre la persistance et la diversité des usages d’objets techniques généralement considérés comme moins à la page (sans jeu de mot aucun sur le premier). Ensuite car ils renvoient à un autre aspect discuté par Edgerton : celle de la prétendue “résistance aux techniques nouvelles”, problèmes parfois abordés par psychologues ou historiens. Or, comme il l’explique, “il est absurde de parler de résistance à la technique ou à l’innovation dans un monde dont les individus ou les sociétés n’acceptent pas nécessairement toute innovation – ou, en fait – tout produit qui leur est proposée. De toute façon, il y a résistance. En adoptant une technique, la société résiste nécessairement à de nombreuses techniques substitutives ‘anciennes’ et ’nouvelles’.” Les pagers très fiables, les features phones en sont de bons exemples. Et l’usage des iPod Touch, à la manière de J., était d’ailleurs précisément proposé dans un article récent de la revue Wired comme l’un des système de communication les plus sécurisé à l'heure actuelle. Même si ces usages ne sont pas majoritaires – tout dépend où ! – ils existent et nous rappellent que différents critères influent sur les choix d'utilisation. Cette combinaison d'objets techniques est d'ailleurs ce qui pêche souvent dans les vidéos prospectifs des grandes sociétés technologiques. On ne voit que des appareils rutilants, les dernières interfaces, alors que la réalité des pratiques correspond davantage à une grande diversité. C'est certes moins glorieux (un téléphone non-tactile ferait-il tâche à côté d'Hololense ?) mais bien plus plausible. Mon collègue du Near Future Laboratory Nic Foster utilisait dans cet article de Core77 une métaphore géologique pour ce phénomène : celui de l'accrétion qui lui permettait d'en discuter les enjeux deson point de vue de designer:
"In order to communicate our vision, it may be helpful to incorporate the existing designed space in parallel with the new. On a very practical level, we should embrace legacy technologies when conceiving new ones. Ethnographic studies constantly highlight technology accretion: the drawer full of cables, the old interaction behaviors, the dusty hard drives, the mouse mats and inherited hardware. Rather than avoid this complexity, good science fiction embraces accretive spaces, where contemporary design and technology sits side by side with older artifacts. In some cases, this technique can be used to show potential disconnects between the new and established, places where technology sticks out like a sore thumb. This is a useful tool for all designers and using it well can help us depict a more tangible future."
Comme il l'exprime ici, cette prise en compte de la diversité des pratiques peut stimuler la rechercher de voies originales. Dans le cas des mobiles, c'est la raison pour laquelle on voit toujours des produits pertinents basés sur des pagers aujourd'hui (c'est d'ailleurs le cas par exemple avec de la géolocalisation indoor) ou des téléphones servant uniquement à téléphoner... avec des propositions loin d'être inesthétiques, absurdes ou curieuses."]]> nicolasnova davidedgerton technology time chronology nicfoster designfiction future futures mobilephones cv fieldnotes diversity tools mobile phones smartphones complexity design novelty earlyadopters lateadopters difference ipodtouch innovation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:902c9904034a/ How Will We Live? | NEXT Network 2015-10-04T07:51:40+00:00 http://nextconf.eu/2015/10/keynote-how-will-we-live/ robertogreco anabjain superflux 2015 future surveillance amazon mortality selfies death futures futurism speculativefiction designfiction confirmationbias news selectiveexposure sensemaking belief information filterbubbles cognitivedissonance officesupplies globalwarming justification trends trendwatching shopping social amazonprime socialization habits feedbackloops chunking routines patents algorithms siri agency internetofthings iot tracking datacollection data behavior humans smarthomes ethics empowerment drones business disruption china bigdata power systemsthinking policing lawenforcement socialmedia stereotypes static99 politics government prediction anonymity forgetting archives datakarma dystopia technology ideals marketing affordances society culture refugees syria whatsapp messaging communication facebook internet web online worldchanging inclusion inclusivity diversity plurality hope values climatechange inlcusivity smarthome makingsense https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5b21a03111aa/ It’s Not Climate Change — It’s Everything Change — Matter — Medium 2015-07-31T18:20:47+00:00 https://medium.com/matter/it-s-not-climate-change-it-s-everything-change-8fd9aa671804 robertogrecoEveryone knows that all life requires energy. But we rarely consider how dependent art and culture are on the energy that is needed to produce, practice and sustain them. What we fail to see are the usually invisible sources of energy that make our art and culture(s) possible and bring with them fundamental values that we are all constrained to live with (whether we approve of them or not). Coal brought one set of values to all industrialized countries; oil brought a very different set… I may not approve of the culture of consumption that comes with oil… but I must use [it] if I want to do anything at all. Those living within an energy system, says Lord, may disapprove of certain features, but they can’t question the system itself. Within the culture of slavery, which lasted at least 5,000 years, nobody wanted to be a slave, but nobody said slavery should be abolished, because what else could keep things going? Coal, says Lord, produced a culture of production: think about those giant steel mills. Oil and gas, once they were up and running, fostered a culture of consumption. Lord cites “the widespread belief of the 1950s and early ’60s in the possibility of continuing indefinitely with unlimited abundance and economic growth, contrasted with the widespread agreement today that both that assumption and the world it predicts are unsustainable.” We’re in a transition phase, he says: the next culture will be a culture of “stewardship,” the energy driving it will be renewables, and the art it produces will be quite different from the art favored by production and consumption cultures. What are the implications for the way we view both ourselves and the way we live? In brief: in the coal energy culture — a culture of workers and production — you are your job. “I am what I make.” In an oil and gas energy culture — a culture of consumption — you are your possessions. “I am what I buy.” But in a renewable energy culture, you are what you conserve. “I am what I save and protect.” We aren’t used to thinking like this, because we can’t see where the money will come from. But in a culture of renewables, money will not be the only measure of wealth. Well-being will factor as an economic positive, too. The second book I’ll mention is by anthropologist, classical scholar, and social thinker Ian Morris, whose book, Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve, has just appeared from Princeton University Press. Like Barry Lord, Morris is interested in the link between energy-capture systems and the cultural values associated with them, though in his case it’s the moral values, not only the aesthetic ones — supposing these can be separated — that concern him. Roughly, his argument runs that each form of energy capture favors values that maximize the chance of survival for those using both that energy system and that package of moral values. Hunter-gatherers show more social egalitarianism, wealth-sharing, and more gender equality than do farmer societies, which subordinate women — men are favored, as they must do the upper-body-strength heavy lifting — tend to practice some form of slavery, and support social hierarchies, with peasants at the low end and kings, religious leaders, and army commanders at the high end. Fossil fuel societies start leveling out gender inequalities — you don’t need upper body strength to operate keyboards or push machine buttons — and also social distinctions, though they retain differences in wealth. The second part of his argument is more pertinent to our subject, for he postulates that each form of energy capture must hit a “hard ceiling,” past which expansion is impossible; people must either die out or convert to a new system and a new set of values, often after a “great collapse” that has involved the same five factors: uncontrolled migration, state failure, food shortages, epidemic disease, and “always in the mix, though contributing in unpredictable ways–- climate change.” Thus, for hunting societies, their way of life is over once there are no longer enough large animals to sustain their numbers. For farmers, arable land is a limiting factor. The five factors of doom combine and augment one another, and people in those periods have a thoroughly miserable time of it, until new societies arise that utilize some not yet exhausted form of energy capture. And for those who use fossil fuels as their main energy source — that would be us, now — is there also a hard ceiling? Morris says there is. We can’t keep pouring carbon into the air — nearly 40 billion tons of CO2 in 2013 alone — without the consequences being somewhere between “terrible and catastrophic.” Past collapses have been grim, he says, but the possibilities for the next big collapse are much grimmer. We are all joined together globally in ways we have never been joined before, so if we fail, we all fail together: we have “just one chance to get it right.” This is not the way we will inevitably go, says he, though it is the way we will inevitably go unless we choose to invent and follow some less hazardous road. But even if we sidestep the big collapse and keep on expanding at our present rate, we will become so numerous and ubiquitous and densely packed that we will transform both ourselves and our planet in ways we can’t begin to imagine. “The 21st century, he says, “shows signs of producing shifts in energy capture and social organization that dwarf anything seen since the evolution of modern humans.”"]]> climate climatechange culture art society margaretatwood 2015 cli-fi sciefi speculativefiction designfiction capitalism consumerism consumption energy fossilfuels canon barrylord coal anthropology change changemaking adaptation resilience ianmorris future history industrialization egalitarianism collapse humans biodiversity agriculture emissions environment sustainability stewardship renewableenergy making production makers materialism evolution values gender inequality migration food transitions hunter-gatherers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4972c074142c/ Tomorrow Today: Design, Fiction and Social Responsibility | DisegnoDaily 2015-07-02T00:18:46+00:00 http://www.disegnodaily.com/article/tomorrow-today-design-fiction-and-social-responsibility robertogreco anthonydunne fionaraby 2015 speculativefiction speculativedesign designfiction design criticaldesign future paulgrahamraven daisyginsberg liamyoung onkarkular johnthackara susanyelavich paolaantonelli catharinerossi portiaungley alexandradaisyginsberg via:anne dunne&raby https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d01ff44ef093/ Critical Design Critical Futures - Critical design and the critical social sciences: or why we need to engagem multiple, speculative critical design futures in a post-political and post-utopian era 2015-05-22T06:05:28+00:00 http://www.cd-cf.org/articles/critical-design-and-the-critical-social-sciences/ robertogreco damianwhite 2015 design speculativedesign speculativefiction designfiction futures future futurism socialsciences colinward deloreshayden herbertsimon criticaldesign designcriticism kimstanleyrobinson ursulaleguin hayaomiyazaki achigram ronherron utopia utopianism capitalism communism socialism anarchism feminism sociology politics policy maxweber patrickgeddes designfuturism anthonydunne fionaraby dunne&raby tonyfry erikolinwright émiledurkheim ursulakleguin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e90232ebfa50/ Critical Design Critical Futures 2015-05-21T06:29:10+00:00 http://www.cd-cf.org/ robertogrecocriticaldesign design criticism designcriticism speculativedesign designfiction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7e8b272b43e8/ The Drone Aviary | superflux 2015-04-13T21:28:13+00:00 http://www.superflux.in/blog/the-drone-aviary robertogreco superflux drones nearfuture designfiction surveillance 2015 film uav future timmaughan anabjain jonarden infrastructure robotvision robotreadableworld airspace vision tracking society prototyping facerecognition facialrecognition https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:97304547e953/ How design fiction imagines future technology – Jon Turney – Aeon 2015-03-20T05:09:14+00:00 http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/how-design-fiction-imagines-future-technology/ robertogreco design designfiction 2105 jonturney technology science participatory future complexity debate futures potential howwelive lcproject openstudioproject darpa scifi sciencefiction change nearfuturelaboratory julianbleecker tbdcatalog fiction prototyping art imagination tinkeringwiththefuture paulgrahamraven alexandraginsberg christinapagapis sisseltolaas syntheticbiology alexiscarrel frederikpohl cyrilkornbluth margaretatwood anthonydunne fionaraby dunne&raby koertvanmensvoort hendrik-jangrievink arthurcclarke davidnye julesverne hgwells martincooper startrek johnunderkoffler davidkirby aldoushuxley bravenewworld minorityreport jamesauger jimmyloizeau worldbuilding microworldbuilding thenewnormal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a232611d8829/ For the Walker Art Center, a Shop That Peddles Evanescence - NYTimes.com 2015-03-20T04:54:21+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/arts/artsspecial/for-the-walker-art-center-a-shop-that-peddles-evanescence.html robertogreco walkerartcenter nearfuturelaboratory alecsoth 2015 designfiction art design intangibles emmetbyrne micheletobin martinesyms entrepreneurship museums museumshops shopping commerce media culture highbrow lowbrow andreasangelidakis architecture julianbleecker adamharvey speculativefiction criticaldesign conversation newinc snapchat performance interaction christinekuan artsy identity hibrow https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:cdf5a138def3/ '1984' Stealth Fashion for the Under-Surveillance Society by Zoltan Csaki — Kickstarter 2015-03-16T19:00:36+00:00 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zoltancsaki/1984-stealth-fashion-for-the-under-surveillance-so robertogreco uniforms surveillance uniformproject glvo clothing design privacy 1984 zoltancsaki designfiction pesonaluniforms uniform https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:baf656f8f055/ Matt Jones: Jumping to the End -- Practical Design Fiction on Vimeo 2015-03-06T06:36:23+00:00 https://vimeo.com/121072011 robertogreco mattjones berg berglondon google googlecreativelab interactiondesign scifi sciencefiction designfiction futurism speculativefiction julianbleecker howwework 1970s comics marvel marvelcomics 2001aspaceodyssey fiction speculation technology history umbertoeco design wernerherzog dansaffer storytelling stories microinteractions signaturemoments worldbuilding stanleykubrick details grain grammars computervision ai artificialintelligence ui personofinterest culture popculture surveillance networks productdesign canon communication johnthackara macroscopes howethink thinking context patternsensing systemsthinking systems mattrolandson objects buckminsterfuller normanfoster brianarthur advertising experiencedesign ux copywriting writing film filmmaking prototyping posters video howwewrite cognition language ara openstudioproject transdisciplinary crossdisciplinary interdisciplinary sketching time change seams seamlessness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e724c9cd2d6a/ CURIOUS RITUALS | Gestural Interaction in the Digital Everyday 2015-03-06T05:46:44+00:00 https://curiousrituals.wordpress.com/ robertogreco nicolasnova danhill julianbleecker gestures technology curiousrituals 2015 nearfuturelaboratory katherinemiyke nancykwon waltonchiu postures rituals designfiction ritual https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b7a3f75d3efe/ Fruit - Words Without Borders 2015-03-03T22:37:57+00:00 http://wordswithoutborders.org/article/fruit robertogreco via:anne hideofurukawa fruit speculativeethnography speculativefiction designfiction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:33a4274df939/ Anab Jain, “Design for Anxious Times” on Vimeo 2015-02-08T02:36:31+00:00 https://vimeo.com/112105187 robertogreco anabjain superflux 2014 design future futures via:steelemaley criticaldesign speculativedesign speculativefiction designfiction designdiscourse film filmmaking technology interaction documentary uncertainty reality complexity algorithms data society surveillance cloud edwardsnowden chelseamanning julianassange whistleblowing science bentobox genecoin bitcoin cryptocurrency internet online jugaad war warfare information politics drones software adamcurtis isolation anxiety capitalism quantification williamgibson art prototyping present cryptocurrencies crypto blockchain https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7e33f82b3e6a/ NEW SURVIVALISM: Alternative 'Bug Out Bags' - Parsons & Charlesworth 2014-11-24T09:11:39+00:00 http://www.parsonscharlesworth.com/NEW-SURVIVALISM-Alternative-Bug-Out-Bags robertogreco 2014 timparsons jessicacharlesworth speculativefiction designfiction speculativedesign survivalism future https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d58d42d35bb/ Three Uncertain Thoughts, Or, Everything I Know I Learned from Ursula Le Guin | Design Culture Lab 2014-10-23T20:43:00+00:00 http://designculturelab.org/2014/10/23/three-uncertain-thoughts-or-everything-i-know-i-learned-from-ursula-le-guin/ robertogreco annegalloway 2014 ursulaleguin unknown uncertainty unproven certainty death life scottlash vitalism complexity culture theory morality ethics absolutism knowing unknowing future futures fiction worldbuilding process method making speculativefiction designfiction ethnography imagination utopia dystopia potential fantasy invention design anthropocentrism multispecies donnaharaway ignorance technology preconceptions posthumanism ursulakleguin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:19b8f93dc304/ Improving Reality 2013 - Paul Graham Raven - YouTube 2014-10-15T00:06:32+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF6WRXtKMSQ robertogreco 2013 paulgrahamraven infrastructure designfiction speculativedesign speculativefiction criticaltheory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dc9589c95a80/ Future Fictions | z33 2014-09-25T18:37:37+00:00 http://www.z33.be/en/projects/future-fictions robertogreco speculativefiction speculativedesign future designfiction annegalloay 2014 karenverschooren https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9526874aa901/ The Novel and the Future of the Near Future | Hazlitt Magazine | Hazlitt 2014-09-21T01:55:30+00:00 http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/feature/novel-and-future-near-future robertogreco ryanbigge designfiction speculativefiction speculativedesign blackmirror 2014 brucesterling charliebrooker https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:707a59b787e3/ The Extrapolation Factory 2014-09-20T20:39:56+00:00 http://extrapolationfactory.com/ robertogreco hriswoebken elliottmontgomery extrapolationfactory designfiction design futures future speculativedesign speculativefiction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:95ae832ec975/ Cheat Sheet for a Non (or Less) Colonialist Speculative Design — Medium 2014-09-16T19:51:38+00:00 https://medium.com/@pedroliveira_/cheat-sheet-for-a-non-or-less-colonialist-speculative-design-9a6b4ae3c465 robertogreco speculativedesign criticaldesign luizaprado pedrooliveira 2014 colonialism designcolonialism imperialism dunne&raby designfiction speculativefiction fionaraby https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:289fedced49f/ The Fiction of the Science on Vimeo 2014-09-07T07:35:58+00:00 https://vimeo.com/80017736 robertogreco speculativefiction designfiction fiction writing design storytelling robertwong google googlecreativelab googleglass technology creativity filmmaking fabrication innovation art science twocultures 2013 srg https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bbedda149b8f/ DRAFT - How We Future - Review of Dunne & Raby _Speculative Everything_ | cameron tonkinwise - Academia.edu 2014-08-22T05:32:11+00:00 https://www.academia.edu/7710031/DRAFT_-_How_We_Future_-_Review_of_Dunne_and_Raby_Speculative_Everything_ robertogrecocamerontonkinwise speculativefiction designfiction fionaraby anthonydunne crticism 2014 dunne&raby speculativedesign https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:99c44b1774d1/ You are not a storyteller - Stefan Sagmeister @ FITC on Vimeo 2014-08-22T05:24:28+00:00 https://vimeo.com/98368484 robertogreco storytelling storytellers design stefansagmeister 2014 humor designfiction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5084794883e6/ A PAREDE ツ hello[at]a-pare.de 2014-07-10T02:16:48+00:00 http://a-pare.de/ robertogreco luizaprado pedrooliveira criticaldesign speculativedesign designresearch gender sound berlin brazil brasil aparede designfiction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8d1d4fd2001e/ Reflections on the Utility of the Poetic Imagination — Medium 2014-06-22T06:28:43+00:00 https://medium.com/@prbeckman/reflections-on-the-utility-of-the-poetic-imagination-3d4cd9480fd6 robertogreco designfiction speculativedesign criticaldesign speculativefiction 2014 prbeckman process imagination creativity prototyping sciencefictionprototyping https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a52c08359d52/ Designing the Future — Medium 2014-06-22T06:27:02+00:00 https://medium.com/designing-the-future robertogreco designfiction criticaldesign speculativefiction speculativedesign https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ce5beca18bb2/ The future of ed tech is here, it’s just not evenly distributed — Futures Exchange — Medium 2014-06-19T09:20:54+00:00 https://medium.com/futures-exchange/the-future-of-ed-tech-is-here-its-just-not-evenly-distributed-210778a423d7 robertogreco savasahelisingh timmaughan designfiction edtech technology education dystopia marketing optimism pessimism 2014 williamgibson speculativefiction futures future innovation buzzwords hastac casestudies https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c488eadf6975/ Failed States: A Tactical Design Workshop | superflux 2014-06-09T22:12:30+00:00 http://www.superflux.in/blog/failed-states robertogreco superflux anabjain failedstates speculativefiction speculativedesign designfiction speculativecriticaldesign criticaldesign justinpickard immigration migration future government switzerland design complexity uncertainty prediction 2014 surveillance networks danielschiboz nicolasnova marionschmidt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8466939a5d71/ DRS 2014: Privilege and Oppression: Towards an Intersectional Critical Design 2014-06-03T19:55:38+00:00 http://www.drs2014.org/en/presentations/350/ robertogreco luizaprado speculativefiction designfiction criticaldesign speculativedesign design 2014 privilege oppression gender technology culture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:83de2aa71d35/ Knitting bones with fact and fiction: A conversation with Design Culture Lab's Anne Galloway 2014-05-18T10:01:42+00:00 http://abler.gizmodo.com/knitting-bones-with-fact-and-fiction-a-conversation-wi-1551078211 robertogreco annegalloway sarahendren spaculativedesign designfiction newzealand countingsheep 2014 interviews research criticaldesign anthropology ethnography speculativedesignethnography speculativeethnography https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9888f2e19dae/ Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and the problem of design fictions | Features | Disegno Daily 2014-05-13T18:38:26+00:00 http://disegnodaily.com/features/alexandra-daisy-ginsberg-and-the-problem-of-design-fictions robertogreco designfiction speculativedesign alexandradaisyginsberg biology 2014 biotechnology via:anne anthonydunne daisyginsberg dunne&raby fionaraby https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9e82ce243539/ Twitter / annegalloway: Compiling a list of non-sci-tech ... 2014-05-13T00:16:04+00:00 https://twitter.com/annegalloway/status/465644738255659008 robertogreco speculativedesign criticaldesign designfiction annegalloway 2014 design https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e913521eb10b/ Design fiction: a bibliography — pasta and vinegar 2014-04-12T07:11:30+00:00 http://www.nicolasnova.net/pasta-and-vinegar/2014/4/3/design-fiction-a-bibliography robertogreco designfiction speculativefiction 2014 booklists bibligraphies nicolasnova https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f517bd337286/ Design Futurescaping | superflux 2014-03-03T06:34:52+00:00 http://www.superflux.in/work/design-futurescaping robertogrecoWhat opportunities do traditional arts, digital media, and social networks create for foresight and futures? What new approaches do these media and digital platforms provide for engaging people in creating and exploring alternative images of the future? How can group-sourced futures creation and exploration put chaos and complexity theories in service to basic futures theory? How can they enhance experiential engagement in the futures dialogue? These questions set the premise for the Poster Session at the Yeditepe International Conference on Foresight and Futures, Istanbul, Turkey. Curated by Dr. Wendy Schultz, the poster session included contributions from Wendy Schultz, Noah Raford, Justin Pickard and Jake Dunagan.  We presented a poster outlining some of our work on 'Design Futurescaping', describing some our tools and methods, grounded in examples from 'Little Brinkland' and 'Power of 8'." "Expanding on this poster, our short essay 'Design Futurescaping' appeared in the free e-reader Blowup: The Era of Objects, published by Rotterdam's V2_ Institute for Unstable Media." [PDF: http://v2.nl/files/2011/events/blowup-readers/the-era-of-objects-pdf ]]]> superflux toolkit futurescaping design designfuturescaping process digitalmedia art socialnetworks powerof8 littlebrinkland future speculativedesign speculativefiction designfiction anabjain https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e2d9d062c177/ Questioning the “critical” in Speculative & Critical Design — Designing the Future — Medium 2014-02-19T03:57:51+00:00 https://medium.com/designing-the-future/5a355cac2ca4 robertogrecoWhat is this obsession with class systems? The UK may have its financial problems but most of us stopped obsessing about these divides in the distant past. As a brazilian designer based in Germany struggling to understand her position in the blindly privileged environment of SCD, Auger’s reaction sounds all too familiar. Being able to ignore things like class, gender and race is the clearest demonstration of privilege: you don’t notice it (or rather, sometimes knowingly choose not to) precisely because it doesn’t affect you. As a discipline theorised within the safe confines of developed, northern european countries and practiced largely within an overwhelmingly white, male, middle class academic environment, SCD has successfully managed to ignore, or at best only vaguely acknowledge, issues of class, race and gender (with few [http://superflux.in/ ] exceptions [http://sputniko.com/ ]). Instead, the vast majority of the body of work currently available in the field has concentrated its efforts on envisioning near futures that deal with issues that seem much more tangible to their own privileged crowd. Projects that clearly reflect the fear of losing first-world privileges — gastronomical, civil or cultural — in a bleak, dystopic future abound, while practitioners seem to be blissfully unaware (or unwilling to acknowledge, in some cases) of other realities. The visual discourse of SCD also seems interestingly devoid of people of color, who rarely (if ever) make an appearance in the clean, perfectly squared, aseptic world imagined by these designers-researchers. Couples depicted in these near-future scenarios seem to be consistently heterosexual; there is no poverty, there are no noticeable power structures that divide the wealthy and the poor, or the colonialist and the colonised; gender seems to be an immutable, black-and-white truth, clearly defined between men and women, with virtually no space for trans* and queer identities (let alone queer and trans* voices speaking for themselves). From its visual discourse to its formulations of near-future scenarios, SCD seems to be curiously apathetic and apolitical for a discipline that strives to be a critical response to mainstream perceptions of what design is, and what it should do. So answering Auger’s pressing question — “What is this obsession with class systems?” —, well: we are obsessed with class systems because we can’t help it. Because, in contrast to most of the practitioners in the field of SCD, we do not have the privilege of not thinking about issues of race, class and gender. Because your dystopia is happening to us right now. It’s happening when we get harassed because of our gender, our class or our ethnicity. It’s happening when a brazilian citizen is killed by british police with no explanation, apology or reason other than being a foreigner [http://www.theguardian.com/uk/menezes ]. It’s happening because where I come from, the reality suggested by The Republic of Salivation isn’t so far-fetched [http://thebrazilbusiness.com/article/cost-of-living-in-brazil-ndash-cesta-basica ]. And because if we don’t call out your privilege — though you dismiss it as “misguided suggestions of privilege” — this is what will keep on happening: SCD will never evolve past a discipline stuck in its own little universe of weather forecasts and smart fridges, incapable of seeing how shallow its own speculations are, and how much more relevant and inclusive they could be. Right now, SCD’s preoccupations are directed towards nothing more than an alleged “lack of poetic dimensions” in our relationship with electronic objects. The “social narratives” and “criticism” so advertised by the great majority of its practitioners seem to only apply to the aesthetic concerns of the intellectual northern european middle classes. Those dystopian “critical futures” forget (or oversee it for a lack of empathy toward the subject matter) that the very electronic objects that they are talking about not only are — and will continue to be — accessible to a minimum percentage of the world’s population, but also that those who won’t have access to it will likely be exploited to make that reality happen, one way or another. It is extremely frustrating to observe how SCD practitioners depict a dystopian universe where technology comes to paint a world in which their own privileges of their own reality are at stake, while at the same time failing to properly acknowledge that design is a strong contributor to the complete denial of basic human rights to minorities, right here, right now. Those sleek, shiny gadgets and sentient objects and robots SCD designers are keen to portray come only to the aid of white, middle class, cisgendered heterosexual citizens. But no SCD dystopian scenario takes into account that this pervasive “technological menace” will most probably be manufactured in China, Indonesia or Bangladesh (as suggested by Ahmed Ansari [https://twitter.com/aansari86 ] in the comments section in the original post). And I cannot help but reinforce that SCD is a practice whose origins and current developments, so far, happen within colonialist countries. Despite all of its shortcomings, I do believe that SCD has something necessary and valid to offer to society. I do believe that design is a powerful language, one that it is perfectly positioned to provide relevant social and cultural critique, and that envisioning near future scenarios might just help us reflect on the paths we want to take as a society. In order to truly achieve these goals, however, SCD needs to be held accountable for its political and social positions; it urgently needs to escape its narrow northern european middle class confines; it needs to talk about social change; it needs more diversity, both in its visual representations and in the practitioners in the field. A first step, perhaps, would be to acknowledge that these issues are at stake instead of just dismissing them as useless concerns. Speculative Design can only earn its “Critical” name once it leaves its own comfort zone and start looking beyond privilege, for real. After all, as brilliantly described by Ahmed in the thread:
The political, economic, social and cultural implications of technologies are never local but always global and systemic — they ripple out and affect people you may never know or see in your lifetime. It’s great to believe in the promise of technological progress when you belong to a class and a society that will directly get to reap its benefits in the end.
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