Imaginary Design Workbooks - Constructive Criticism and Practical Provocation

Explore a conference talk that delves into design strategies for critical and experimental work while maintaining constructiveness. Learn about "imaginary design workbooks" featuring ambiguous images and invented language annotations to suggest design spaces without specifying particular ideas. Discover how extreme situations, including thoughtful, dystopian, and mythic concepts, emerged from a workshop exploring the "home hub" space. Examine the development and critique of a "digital social worker" concept in collaboration with a senior social worker. Gain insights into the use of Foucault's history of surveillance to "defamiliarise" home hub technology and the current youth justice system. Challenge the dichotomy between "constructive" and "critical" design, understanding that design is never neutral. Recorded at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Montréal, Canada.