{"id":19296,"date":"2013-11-27T18:12:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/bruce-sterlings-article-on-design-fictions-in\/"},"modified":"2013-11-27T18:12:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T18:12:43","slug":"bruce-sterlings-article-on-design-fictions-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/bruce-sterlings-article-on-design-fictions-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Sterling’s article on ‘Design Fictions’ in ‘Wired’…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruce Sterling’s article on ‘Design Fictions’ in ‘Wired’…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bruce Sterling claims that\u00a0Julian Bleecker \u2018invented the interesting term \u201cdesign fictions\u201d\u2019?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A formal definition exists: \u201cDesign fiction is the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I stumbled across the Wired article from another Design Fiction article on\u00a0http:\/\/www.experientia.com<\/a>\u00a0This article also has some terrific video examples!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Made me realise that there was a growing community of \u2018DesFi\u2019 and \u2018Near Future\u2019 design educators out in the world\u2026 so I should clarify that in 2009 I began teaching a Masters course in Australia that I called \u201cDesign Fictions\u201d. I began using a blog to share findings and prototypes in 2011:\u00a0http:\/\/designfictions.tumblr.com\/\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0(this tumblr!)<\/p>\n

I use the term \u2018DesFi\u2019 as a play on \u2018SciFi\u2019.<\/strong>\u00a0In that \u2018SciFi\u2019 narratives and visualisations are fictional scenarios based on scientific discoveries and discussions. Im particularly interested in how the genre of \u2018science fiction<\/strong>’ can provide an example approach for design students to consider when they are\u00a0conceptualising potential designs for future contexts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The DesFi approach allows design students\u00a0to put aside existing limitations<\/strong>\u2026 such as current issues around voice recognition, language translators or even access to personal data. These limitations are based in technical, political and sometimes ethical arguments that, although undeniably\u00a0critical to design feasibility, can suspend design innovations if we only consider the policies, technologies and processes that exist right now.<\/p>\n

My premise to the students is that such contemporary concerns may be solved by another discipline in the near or far future. Consequently, attitudes will shift, new technologies will emerge and the criteria and inventory for design specifications will change.<\/p>\n

Limiting our design ideas to current issues may dilute the potential for innovation\u2026 but more importantly, by prototyping great imaginative design solutions,\u00a0we can increase the demand for change through demonstrating the possibilities that emerge from overcoming the conditions and contingencies of designing products for only todays market and todays user.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a designer, Ive always enjoyed allowing some of my ideas to\u00a0follow a \u2018what if?\u2019 tangent<\/strong>\u2026 this can take me on a journey to a ridiculous, and sometimes subversive place\u2026 or I can end up landing somewhere fantastic and inspired. Either way, something new and un-expected is bound to be found.<\/p>\n

When I enable students to\u00a0follow these DesFi tangents to a prototype stage<\/strong>\u2026 the discoveries are always dramatic\u2026 yet they can always be re-imagined and re-specified to be installed in current contexts. They may lose some of the \u2018fantastic\u2019\u2026 but they will always keep parts of the concepts that would not have been explored if they hadn\u2019t travelled on the DesFi tangent.<\/p>\n

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The blog that I found this on looks like a wonderful Grad program.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bruce Sterling’s article on ‘Design Fictions’ in ‘Wired’… notational: designfictions: Bruce Sterling claims that\u00a0Julian Bleecker \u2018invented the interesting term \u201cdesign fictions\u201d\u2019? A formal definition exists: \u201cDesign fiction is the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change.\u201d I stumbled across the Wired article from another Design Fiction article on\u00a0http:\/\/www.experientia.com\u00a0This article also has some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-51e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}