With the study "Digital Futures of Democracy" we are invited to the Speculative Design Roundtable of the Interaction Design Education Summit:
Speculation and Fiction as Modes of Understanding - a panel discussion on the role of speculation and fiction as methods of enquiry, exploration and understanding in design.
More information about the summit and tickets are available on their website:
Speculations enable us to collectively think about futures. Given the challenges of our time, we urgently need narratives that empower us to act. Narratives that break out of prognosticism and thus allow for ambivalences. How do we create inclusive futures that we can orient ourselves by and that empower us to act? And how do we create an accessible discourse about such futures?
For the publicly funded Foundation for Technology Assessment TA-SWISS, Dezentrum developed three scenarios of a digital democracy in the year 2050. The result was three speculative objects: a mind-expanding pill, a coin-flipping machine and a shrink-wrapped mushroom risotto. The aim was to make immaterial discourses and different futures tangible in order to create a concrete basis for discussion on questions of social and political coexistence.
In this short lecture, I reflect on the participatory and transdisciplinary development of the short stories and artefacts as well as the subsequent public presentation and reception.
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