{"id":22954,"date":"2012-09-18T15:41:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/questioning-as-a-way-to-find-answers\/"},"modified":"2012-09-18T15:41:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:41:44","slug":"questioning-as-a-way-to-find-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/questioning-as-a-way-to-find-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Questioning As A Way To Find Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stoweboyd.com\/post\/28714119298\/questioning-as-a-way-to-find-answers\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">stoweboyd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dan Hill has a great post about an \u2018imaginary appliance\u2019 called Brickstarter, and explains how speculative design (not a term he is using, but he should) animates the process of getting people to consider the implications of a design:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dan Hill, <a href=\"http:\/\/brickstarter.org\/brickstarter-prototype-sketches-questions\/#comment-292\">Brickstarter \u2013 Brickstarter prototype v0.1, and using sketches to ask questions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Previously on Brickstarter<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0our project is about sketching new cultures of public decision-making, predicated on reversing NIMBY cultures to become YIMBY cultures. We\u2019re creating a platform for making suggestions about how to improve your neighbourhood or environment, and then turn those proposals into projects. We do this in order to start constructive conversations within and around government and other relevant institutions. This aspect engages with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brickstarter.org\/dark-matter\/\">\u201cdark matter\u201d<\/a>: the often imperceptible regulations, legislation, organisational cultures and behavours that can either enable or block systemic change. As such, Brickstarter is actually a prototype of a service, or culture, that attempts to get to the heart of what democratic decision-making might be, of how we might develop our cultures of politics and governance in cities, towns and nations.<\/p>\n<p>This latter aspect actually reveals that the point of Brickstarter is not really in making a website at all, necessarily, but rather in developing a sketch of \u201ca 21st century social contract\u201d. Or at least aspects of that. It\u2019s not making a statement about what that should be, but using prototyping to explore what that\u00a0<em>might<\/em>\u00a0be.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And Brickstarter looks very cool, too:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m88xbyFCp81qjn6dko1_1280.png\" width=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stoweboyd: Dan Hill has a great post about an \u2018imaginary appliance\u2019 called Brickstarter, and explains how speculative design (not a term he is using, but he should) animates the process of getting people to consider the implications of a design: Dan Hill, Brickstarter \u2013 Brickstarter prototype v0.1, and using sketches to ask questions Previously on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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-22954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5Ye","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22954","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=22954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}