| id |
ijac201614208 |
| authors |
Roudavski, Stanislav and Gwyllim Jahn |
| year |
2016 |
| title |
Activist systems: Futuring with living models |
| source |
International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 14 - no. 2, 182-196 |
| summary |
This article considers how computational simulation can be used to amplify imagination and make its effects sharable, persuasive and activist. It argues that this is not only possible but important for the future of design and introduces the concept of living models as a device that can express the futuring potential of such simulations. Developing this argument, the article explores whether, by postponing top-down rationalisms in favour of a ‘methodological naivete?’, designers can gain the capacity to uncover and engage with the unusual participants of the complex dynamic assemblages they aim to change. When designers collaborate with the agencies of the living models they deploy, the outcomes prove useful for the exploration of alternative values and worldviews. Explorations of this kind are significant because human designs need to improve their integrations with existing complex systems and are innovative in their ambition to see creative agency in non-human actors. In a practical demonstration of such approaches, the experiments in generative computation presented in this article illustrate that design creativity occurs through humans but not entirely because of them. |
| keywords |
Speculative design, generative design, design activism, simulation, creative computing |
| series |
journal |
| full text |
 file.pdf ( bytes) |
| references |
Content-type: text/plain
|
Adamson G. (2007)
 Thinking through Craft
, New York: Berg
|
|
|
|
|
Adamson G. (2010)
The craft reader
, Oxford; New York: Berg
|
|
|
|
|
Agre PE. (1997)
Toward a critical technical practice: lessons learned in trying to reform AI
, Bowker G, Gasser L, Star L, et al. (eds) Bridging the great divide: social science, technical systems, and cooperative work. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997, pp. 131–158
|
|
|
|
|
Alberro A. (1999)
Reconsidering conceptual art
, Alberro A and Stimson B (eds) Conceptual art: a critical anthology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999, pp. xvi–xxxvii
|
|
|
|
|
Arendt H. (1998)
The human condition
, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
|
|
|
|
|
Baber C. (2003)
Cognition and tool use: forms of engagement in human and animal use of tools
, New York; London: Taylor & Francis
|
|
|
|
|
Bogost I. (2006)
Unit operations: an approach to videogame criticism
, Cambridge, MA: MIT
|
|
|
|
|
Bourdieu P. (1990)
The logic of practice
, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
|
|
|
|
|
Burns C, Cottam H, Vanstone C, (2003)
RED paper 02: transformation design
, London: Design Council
|
|
|
|
|
Burry M, Ostwald M, Downton P (2007)
Homo faber: modelling architecture
, Sydney, NSW, Australia: Archadia
|
|
|
|
|
Collins H. (2001)
What is tacit knowledge?
, Schatzki TR, Knorr-Cetina KD and Savigny EV (eds) The practice turn in contemporary theory. London: Routledge2001, pp. 107–119
|
|
|
|
|
De Landa M. (2011)
Philosophy and simulation: the emergence of synthetic reason
, London; New York: Continuum
|
|
|
|
|
Delamont S and Atkinson P. (2001)
Doctoring uncertainty: mastering craft knowledge
, Soc Stud Sci 2001; 31(1): 87–107
|
|
|
|
|
Dormer P. (1997)
Craft and the turing test for practical thinking
, Dormer P (ed.) Culture of craft. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, 1997, pp. 137–158
|
|
|
|
|
Downton P. (2007)
Temporality, representation and mechanic behaviours: model dialogues with the self, collaborators, clients and others
, Burry M, Ostwald M, Downton P, et al. (eds) Homo faber: modelling architecture. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Archadia, 2007, pp. 42–49
|
|
|
|
|
Dunne A. (2005)
Hertzian tales: electronic products, aesthetic experience and critical design
, Cambridge, MA; London: MIT
|
|
|
|
|
Eliasson O. (2007)
Models are real
, Abruzzo E, Ellingsen E and Solomon JD (eds) Models: 306090. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007, pp. 19–25
|
|
|
|
|
Fischer G. (2003)
Meta-design: beyond user-centered and participatory design
, Proceedings of the HCI international– human-computer interaction: theory and practice, Crete, 22–27 June 2003, pp. 88–92. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
|
|
|
|
|
Fishwick PA. (2007)
Handbook of dynamic system modeling
, Boca Raton, FL; London: Chapman & Hall/CRC
|
|
|
|
|
Fogg BJ (2003)
Persuasive technology: using computers to change what we think and do
, Amsterdam; Boston, MA: Morgan-Kaufmann
|
|
|
|
| last changed |
2016/06/13 08:34 |
|
