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Speculative and Critical Design in Education: Practice and Perspectives

Helgason, Ingi; Smyth, Michael; Encinas, Enrique; Mitrovi?, Ivica

Authors

Enrique Encinas

Ivica Mitrovi?



Abstract

This full-day, interdisciplinary workshop will address the use of Speculative and Critical Design (SCD), Design Fiction, and related practices, including those that use provocation, ambiguity and activism, within undergraduate, postgraduate and professional educational contexts. The day will include the sharing of experiences of working with these methods within the classroom, along with discussions around the perspectives and motivations underpinning the choice of approaches. The aims of the workshop organizers are to share and support effective practices in education, and to further the debate on the future of Speculative and Critical Design within educational curricula. The workshop builds on the activities of the current SpeculativeEdu project, which is concerned with developing novel educational skills and design practices for the 21st century, especially those focused on critical relations between technology and human society.

Citation

Helgason, I., Smyth, M., Encinas, E., & Mitrović, I. (2020, July). Speculative and Critical Design in Education: Practice and Perspectives. Presented at DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020, Eindhoven Netherlands

Presentation Conference Type Conference Paper (published)
Conference Name DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020
Start Date Jul 6, 2020
End Date Jul 20, 2020
Acceptance Date May 4, 2020
Online Publication Date Jul 6, 2020
Publication Date Jul 6, 2020
Deposit Date Jul 31, 2020
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages 385-388
ISBN 9781450379878
DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3395907
Keywords Speculative design; critical design; design fiction; education; design methods; pedagogy.
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2679189
Publisher URL https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3393914.3395907