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Paper Presentations |Main Conference Day 2 | Video

by Swiss Design Network

Negotiating Futures - Design FictionDesigners see the world not simply as it is, but rather as it could be. In this perspective, the world is a laboratory to explore the contingency of the existing and the thinking in options. Imaginations of the contra factual are a key source for the creation of alternative political, technological, social, or economic constellations of artefacts, interfaces, signs, actors, and spaces. At the same time, strategies of materialization are pivotal to shift the boundary between the fictional and the real and to finally bring possible new realities into being. The conference addresses the questions of how fictions are designed and how the multiplicity of possible new futures is negotiated and realized.

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Episodes

  1. Jan Eckert and Marco Mason / 2 of 2

    Jan Eckert and Marco Mason From Social Relevances to Design Issues

  2. Jan Eckert and Marco Mason / 1 of 2

    Jan Eckert and Marco Mason From Social Relevances to Design Issues

  3. Thomas Müller, Andreas Simon and Gregor Naef

    Thomas Müller, Andreas Simon and Gregor Naef A Kid's Interface: Designing a Keyboard for Two Year Olds

  4. Annina Schneller

    Annina Schneller The Visual Rhetoric of Public Transport Information Design

  5. Betti Marenko

    Betti Marenko Contagious Affectivity. The Management of Emotions in Late Capitalist Design

About this show

Negotiating Futures - Design FictionDesigners see the world not simply as it is, but rather as it could be. In this perspective, the world is a laboratory to explore the contingency of the existing and the thinking in options. Imaginations of the contra factual are a key source for the creation of alternative political, technological, social, or economic constellations of artefacts, interfaces, signs, actors, and spaces. At the same time, strategies of materialization are pivotal to shift the boundary between the fictional and the real and to finally bring possible new realities into being. The conference addresses the questions of how fictions are designed and how the multiplicity of possible new futures is negotiated and realized.

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How many episodes does Paper Presentations |Main Conference Day 2 | Video have?

Paper Presentations |Main Conference Day 2 | Video has 6 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on March 31, 2011.

What is Paper Presentations |Main Conference Day 2 | Video about?

Negotiating Futures - Design FictionDesigners see the world not simply as it is, but rather as it could be. In this perspective, the world is a laboratory to explore the contingency of the existing and the thinking in options. Imaginations of the contra factual are a key source for the creation of...

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Paper Presentations |Main Conference Day 2 | Video is created and hosted by Swiss Design Network.
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