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described have been achieved through ‘policy interventions’. Speculative design work, and design fiction in particular, has in the past often focused heavily on technological transitions, without putting enough effort into considering the policies that must necessarily accompany them. Such work can often fall too closely into the technological utopian mindset as described in the article. This focus on the technological premise rather than the surrounding societal reactions to it can be the case even when the utopian aspects are not always to the fore. Critical and
a room … the first UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum had begun Cathy Howe, Imperial College London, UK, c.howe@imperial.ac.uk This paper reports on the first UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum, held in mixed reality on 3–4 February 2014. This forum brought together 70 delegates from 15 sectors under the theme of ‘making connections matter’. Highly participatory and academically credible, the forum combined a form of ‘open space’ participation with presentations from respected speakers on topics as diverse as design, fiction writing and community
, attempts have been made to extend this thinking-with-fiction technique so as to accommodate issues at the infrastructural scale (see for example Raven, 2014 ; Merrie et al, 2017 ) and demonstrate the utility of speculations as a space in which complex systems and their complex problems might be explored from a human perspective. A more radical form of speculation informs the field of design fiction . 4 This practice, a branch or spur of the broader discipline of speculative design established by Dunne and Raby (see, for example, 2013 ) during their tenure at the
perspectives in potential more-than-human ecologies ( Lindley et al, 2020 ) and Design Fiction ( Coulton et al, 2017 ) as a means of bringing these constellations to life for discussion with various potential stakeholders. These Prime Air visions – the loaded everydayness of drone logistics combined with ‘innovation’ branding and convenience – promote a monopoly on the volumetric airspace reserved for all UAS (Unmanned aerial vehicles) operations in future national policies. The article’s identification of the ‘realness’ and lifeworld building is an effective device for
is also often talked about in correlation with design fiction, with the difference in terms and application dissected and mapped out inconsistently by different design scholars ( Lindley et al, 2018 ). Distinctions are often explained as design fiction dealing with far futures and world building, while speculative design materialises near futures or parallel presents ( Malpass, 2017 ). Initially, many of these alternate scenarios were technology centric, and the method(s) were seen a useful tool for ‘testing’ user acceptance of technological soft- and hardware
ways of remembering, but also aware of the totalitarian powers of mediating our futures through same shines and sameness. So, there I landed at seriously thinking about futures from a very different path from Design approaches, while I was still in the Design department (ImaginationLancaster) where my colleagues (Paul Coulton, 2020 ; Serena Pollastri et al, 2018 ; Joe Lindley, 2015 ; Paul Cureton, 2020 ) were doing Design Fiction and Speculative Design, not a bad place to meet them! But a good space to exchange methods and perspectives, really reflecting on
Sung laugh, raising their glasses) Amalia and Sung: Hurray! (loud voice) To deep speculation! Conflict of interest The author declares that there is no conflict of interest. References Baerten , N. , Tassinari , V. , Huybrechts , L. and Bertolotti , E. ( forthcoming ) 2030 international RHIZomatic assembly. design fiction performance during PDC2020 , Proceedings of PDC2020 . Baerten , N. , Tassinari , V. and Bertolotti , E. ( 2016 ) The Neological Institute. Design Fiction Performance During DRS2016 , Brighton . Debord , G
