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Discourse, Speculation And Multidisciplinarity: Designing Urban Futures

This paper presents a design case study, a summer school that brought together a multi-disciplinary group of early- career professionals to explore ideas relating to new technologies in an urban context. The organisers of this school took an explicitly design-informed approach to the event, specifically a ‘critical design’ approach. The aspiration of the organisers was that the school activities would lead to the creation of an exhibition of artefacts and visions expressing the ideas explored during the school. This expectation to generate exhibition quality outputs influenced the participants’ experience of the event and this paper describes and reflects upon the success of this approach. The research question that this work addresses is ; how useful is it to adopt a critical design approach with a multidisciplinary group in a workshop or school setting. The authors suggest that envisionment in the form of ‘design fictions’ is key to the participants’ experience. In this particular case study, the topics explored related to technology, society and the urban environment.

urban interaction design; speculative design; design fiction; critical design; multi-disciplinarity design methodology

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