The Co-ordinates of Design Fiction

Blythe, Mark and Encinas, Enrique (2016) The Co-ordinates of Design Fiction. In: GROUP 2016 - ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work, 13th - 16th November 2016, Sanibel Island, Florida.

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Abstract

This paper argues that design fiction is a powerful term in part because it is malleable. A wide range of differing design fictions are emerging and we pursue a spatial metaphor to provide a map based on literary approaches. Following Margaret Atwood we trace design fiction back to marvel and wonder tales such as the Arabian Nights through to the science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth century. We suggest science, magic, ambiguity and irony as the cardinal points of design fiction. We then apply these four different approaches to design fiction to the concept of a divorce app for older people. We argue that currently design fiction is dominated by scientistic and ironic design fiction and suggest that magic and ambiguity are currently under explored.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Design fiction; well being; older people; magic
Subjects:	W200 Design studies
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Design
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	05 Jan 2017 11:30
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 12:14
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/28988

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