Products that technology could become

Auger, James. 2012. “Speculative design: The products that technology could become”. In Why Robot? Speculative Design, the domestication of technology and the considered future. PhD Thesis. RCA, London.

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Notes:

• Speculative design can be exciting and challenging for audiences, pushing their expectations in new and unexpected ways.
• The main goal isn’t about bringing the product to market but is very flexible about its development.

Material speculation

Wakkary, Ron & Odom, William & Hauser, Sabrina & Hertz, Garnet & Lin, Henry. 2016. A short guide to material speculation: Actual artifacts for critical inquiry. interactions. 23. 44-48.

Notes:

• material speculation: investing the world around us to create different scenarios, personas, realities. alternative worlds can be created.
• what if questions
• Material speculation blurs the distinction between the actual world and hypothetical worlds since it can manifest in a world that does not exist.