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Failures and Design Fictions Workshop
6th Swiss Design Network Symposium
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Using Design Fiction to Anticipate and Explore Possible Failures, Unanticipated Outcomes, and Imagine Harder into the Unexpected and Outliers

The Project

I facilitated a Design Fiction workshop at the Swiss Design Network conference in Basel Switzerland in October 2010. The workshop was largely Nicolas’ organization and we took advantage of the conference theme of 'Design Fiction' to consider the topic of failure in design — failure as a guide and approach and provocation together with the considerations that design fiction can offer.

Summary

A workshop on the value of failures in design at the 6th Swiss Design Network conference in Basel Switzerland.

Workshop Dates: 10/30/10
Published On: 10/20/24, 11:55
Updated On: 10/20/24, 12:09

Written By: Julian Bleecker

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Designers 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 thinking in options. Imaginations of the contrafactual 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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