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Design Fiction Theresa Slater and Adam Owen OCADU, DIGF 6004 Creative Techniques 2016

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Design Fiction

Theresa Slater and Adam OwenOCADU, DIGF 6004 Creative Techniques 2016

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Overview

Design Fiction uses creative storytelling methods to expand a designer's scope throughout the conceptualization process, focusing on using diegesis and disbelief suspension in exploring the near-future possibilities of product development.

Build a possible world around the product, then explore that world.Build a possible product within a world, then explore that product.

Writer’s FictionBruce Sterling

“...the intentional use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief in the future” (Sterling 2012)

Designer’s Fiction Julian Bleeker

“...how can science fiction be a purposeful, deliberate, direct participant in the practices of science fact?” (Bleeker 2003)

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“ Diegetic PrototypeDemonstrating possible futures and possible technologies to the public

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“ Diegetic PrototypeDemonstrating possible futures and possible technologies to the public

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“ Diegetic PrototypeDemonstrating possible futures and possible technologies to the public

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“ Diegetic PrototypeDemonstrating possible futures and possible technologies to the public

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“ Diegetic PrototypeDemonstrating possible futures and possible technologies to the public

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Science Fiction made Real

⊙Earbuds⊙Targeted advertisements⊙Moon landing⊙Video chat⊙Antidepressants⊙Roomba⊙Online ordering⊙Surveillance state

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1Purpose

Recursive relationship between science fiction

and fact

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“ “... enhance our capacity to seek out and work with possibility, enrich communication in the exchange of speculative ideas, disrupt conventional mindsets with provocative visions of alternative futures, and affirm individual agency.” (Jonathan Resnick, 2011, p.3)

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Use charts

to explain

your ideas

Design Fiction

Science Fiction

Speculative Design

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Encouraging

Quality Futures

⊙Design Fiction adds social meaning and value to objects.

⊙Designers can ideate from spaces free of the constraints of the real.

⊙Design Fiction has the power to convince users and designers that change is possible and likely.

⊙Building convincing futures directs research and development.

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Experiential FuturesNoah Radford

AlsoKnown

As

Anticipatory EthnographyJoseph Lindley, Dhruv Sharma, Robert Potts

Ethnofuturism Christopher Ireland

Science Fiction ProtoypingBrian David Johnson

Diegetic PrototypingDavid Kirby

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Envisioning(Steampunk)

Variations

FuturismArt HistoryForesightAfrofuturism

Science Fiction

Speculative Design

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THE SLATER-OWEN DESIGN FICTION

TECHNIQUE

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THE SLATER-OWEN DESIGN FICTION

TECHNIQUEImagine a future iteration of your product...

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Build a possible

world

Government1. Disciplinarian2. Authoritarian3. De-centralized4. Utopian5. Anarchy / Failed State6. Democracy

Economies1. Late Capitalist2. Mercantile3. Communist4. De-centralized (eg. Bitcoin)5. Socialist6. Post-scarcity

Society 1. City-state (Ultra urban)2. Agrarian3. Nomadic4. Hunter-gatherer5. Trans-national6. United Earth

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What issues will the product face in this future world?

Imagine a future iteration of your

product...

1.How will it address these issues?

2.Will its form change?

3.What features will it have?

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Bring the future-product back to

the present...

What issues today need to be resolved to make the product a reality? Take the solution to those issues and envision a technology built around that solution.

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What effect would that technology have on the present iteration of your product?

What effect would your present product, augmented by that technology, have on today’s world?

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Our process is easy

Build a WorldWhat are the new constraints?

Bring your solution back to today

>Speculate >Reflect >Extrapolate

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Constrained projects with clear and defined briefs When innovation is not a goal Communication of time sensitive information

When not to use

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Foresight yields actionable insights.Ability to conceptualize change materially. Story-building contextualizes projects to clients, collaborators, and public.

Outcomes

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