Cripping Technology
Disability Visibility
This episode focuses on art and technology featuring a conversation with Lindsey D Felt and Vanessa Chang. Vanessa and Lindsey curated Recoding CripTech, a multidisciiplinary art exhibition at SOMACultural Center in San Francisco in early 2020. You'll learn about how their collaboration and friendship started, what it was like curating this exhibit, some of the disabled artists as part of the exhibit, and why CripTech, disability culture, and accessibility is more important than ever in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Research methods in artistic practice
Making and Being: An interactive website, a workbook, a series of videos and a deck of cards by Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, visual arts educators and members of the collective BFAMFAPhD. Making and Being is a framework for teaching art that emphasizes contemplation, collaboration, and political economy. The authors share ideas and teaching strategies that they have adapted to spaces of learning which range from self-organized workshops for artists to Foundation, BFA and MFA thesis classes. The website and workbook include activities, worksheets, and assignments and is a critical resource for artists and art educators today.
Research Methods: Artistic Research, Methods, Techniques: A guide to alternative forms of research that artists engage in, including: practice-based research; research-led practice; practice-led research; Transdisciplinary research; research through performance; participatory research.
Research Methods in Performance StudiesISBN: 1351044796
What is speculative design?
Speculative design is an approach to design that focuses on imagining future scenarios and possibilities. It can be used to explore social, political, technological, and ethical issues, and to generate new ideas and solutions.
Design Is [Speculative] Futures Design Thinking - a new toolkit for preemptive design
Books
Speculative Everything by
How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be-to imagine possible futures. This is not the usual sort of predicting or forecasting, spotting trends and extrapolating; these kinds of predictions have been proven wrong, again and again. Instead, Dunne and Raby pose "what if" questions that are intended to open debate and discussion about the kind of future people want (and do not want). Speculative Everything offers a tour through an emerging cultural landscape of design ideas, ideals, and approaches. Dunne and Raby cite examples from their own design and teaching and from other projects from fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography. They also draw on futurology, political theory, the philosophy of technology, and literary fiction. They show us, for example, ideas for a solar kitchen restaurant; a flypaper robotic clock; a menstruation machine; a cloud-seeding truck; a phantom-limb sensation recorder; and devices for food foraging that use the tools of synthetic biology. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more-about everything-reality will become more malleable. The ideas freed by speculative design increase the odds of achieving desirable futures.
ISBN: 0262019841Publication date: 2013-12-06
Techno-vernacular creativity and innovation : culturally relevant making inside and outside of the classroom by
Gaskins, Nettrice R. Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation : Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom. The MIT Press, 2020.
ISBN: 9780262365956Publication date: 2020
Digital Futures for Learning by
Digital Futures for Learning offers a methodological and pedagogical way forward for researchers and educators who want to work imaginatively with "what's next" in higher education and informal learning. Today's debates around technological transformations of social, cultural and educational spaces and practices need to be informed by a more critical understanding of how visions of the future of learning are made and used, and how they come to be seen as desirable, inevitable or impossible. Integrating innovative methods, key research findings, engaging theories and creative pedagogies across multiple disciplines, this book argues for and explores speculative approaches to researching and analysing post-compulsory and informal learning futures - where we are, where we might go and how to get there.
ISBN: 9781000770155Publication date: 2022-11-08
Afrofuturism and Digital Humanities by
This book brings Afrofuturism into conversation with digital humanities to pioneer the field of Digital Africana Studies, and shows how students and academics can engage with the vision of Afrofuturism, both theoretically and practically, in the classroom and through research. As Black people across the globe consider their place in the future following the past two decades of technological advancement, Afrofuturism and its relevance for the humanities has become ever pertinent. While Afrofuturism has thus far been discussed through a literary, artistic, or popular culture lens, growing use of new technologies, and its resultant intersections with the reality of our racial experiences, has created a need for approaching Afrofuturism from a digital studies perspective. Via detailed case studies, Bryan W. Carter introduces the field of Digital Africana Studies to demonstrate how this new area can be experienced pedagogically. Alongside the book, readers can also visit select Digital Africana Studies projects that exemplify the various technologies and projects described at the author's website: ibryancarter.com/projects. Given its unique approach to the path-breaking tradition of Afrofuturism, the book will be indispensable for scholars and students across fields such as digital humanities, media studies, black studies, African American studies, and Africana studies.
ISBN: 0429889798Publication date: 2022-06-24
Articles
Speculative design and pedagogy
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Directions for Future Work: From #TechWontBuildIt to #DesignJustice
- Arada, Kathleen, et al. “Youth as Pattern Makers for Racial Justice: How Speculative Design Pedagogy in Science Can Promote Restorative Futures through Radical Care Practices.” The Journal of the Learning Sciences, vol. 32, no. 1, 2023, pp. 76–109
- Rouse, Rebecca, and Lissa Holloway-Attaway. “Troubling Games: Materials, Histories, and Speculative Future Worlds for Games Pedagogy.” Convergence (London, England), vol. 28, no. 2, 2022, pp. 539–60
- Mainsah, Henry. “Exploring Creative Pedagogies for Research Methods: Reflections from a Workshop Series.” Methodological Innovations, vol. 15, no. 3, 2022, pp. 251–256
- O’Brien, Ray, and Alexa Forbes. “Speculative Futuring: Learners as Experts on Their Own Futures.” Journal of Futures Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, 2021, pp. 19–36, https://doi.org/10.6531/JFS.202112_26(2).0002.
Cripping technology
- Jerreat-Poole, Adan. “Virtual Reality, Disability, and Futurity Cripping Technologies in Half-Life: Alyx.” Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2022, pp. 59–75, https://doi.org/10.3828/jlcds.2022.4.
- "Cripping Infrastructure". Ehrensperger, Emily. 2022.
- "Digital Methods for Disability Pressbook: 3.3: Cripping the Future"
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, by Robert McRuer.
Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as “normal” or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze thoroughly the ways in which these interdisciplinary fields inform each other. Drawing on feminist theory, African American and Latino/a cultural theories, composition studies, film and television studies, and theories of globalization and counter-globalization, Robert McRuer articulates the central concerns of crip theory and considers how such a critical perspective might impact cultural and historical inquiry in the humanities. McRuer examines how dominant and marginal bodily and sexual identities are composed, and considers the vibrant ways that disability and queerness unsettle and re-write those identities in order to insist that another world is possible.
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