STUART REEVES STUART.REEVES@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor
The future as a design problem
Reeves, Stuart; Goulden, Murray; Dingwall, Robert
Authors
MURRAY GOULDEN MURRAY.GOULDEN@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor
Robert Dingwall
Abstract
An often unacknowledged yet foundational problem for design is how ‘futures‘ are recruited for design practice. This problem saturates considerations of what could or should be designed. We distinguish two intertwined approaches to this: ‘pragmatic projection’, which tries to tie the future to the past, and ‘grand vision’, which ties the present to the future. We examine ubiquitous computing as a case study of how pragmatic projection and grand vision are practically expressed to direct and structure design decisions. We assess their implications and conclude by arguing that the social legitimacy of design futures should be increasingly integral to their construction.
Citation
Reeves, S., Goulden, M., & Dingwall, R. (2016). The future as a design problem. Design Issues, 32(3), 6-17. https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00395
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Acceptance Date | Nov 2, 2015 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 13, 2016 |
Publication Date | Jul 30, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Feb 17, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 13, 2016 |
Journal | Design Issues |
Print ISSN | 0747-9360 |
Electronic ISSN | 1531-4790 |
Publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 32 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 6-17 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00395 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/787383 |
Publisher URL | https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/10.1162/DESI_a_00395 |
Contract Date | Feb 17, 2016 |
Files
Reeves, Stuart
(466 Kb)
PDF
Publisher Licence URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
You might also like
Human values in curating a human rights media archive
(2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gifting personal interpretations in galleries
(2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nine questions for HCI researchers in the making
(2016)
Journal Article
Video gaming as practical accomplishment: ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and play
(2016)
Journal Article
Some conversational challenges of talking with machines
(2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Downloadable Citations
About Repository@Nottingham
Administrator e-mail: discovery-access-systems@nottingham.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search