Research & Synthesis
Some research would go into setting up the stage for this project- on the following fronts:
Defining the “good” that would act as the lens for the ethics involved in this project.
Understanding the extent of the politics of design and how it affects production, consumption, influence and so on.
Speculating the kinds of futures that would potentially convey the intended message.
Discussing the process and the outcomes, to really build the discourse which the project seeks to initiate.
Potential threads for defining what’s ‘Good’
5/04/2021Reflecting on the ideas of good and bad, through commonly accepted notions of Good Design.
Design Fictions & Diegetic Prototypes
10/04/2021
Looking into the possibilities of developing designed prototypes for the fictional contexts created over the course of the project.
The First Survey
11/04/2021Re-posing the same questions through a different structure.
Artificial Futures
13/04/2021After asking humans, an attempt at asking the same questions to an AI.
On Hiatus
17-21/04/2021Stopped working because COVID struck
Common Threads between People’s Imaginations and the AI
23/04/2021Are there commonalities we can draw upon between the futures pictured by people and the AI? Can that help us frame the ideas of Utopia and Dystopia to work on?
Moral and Other Compasses
25/04/2021Alignment charts, and other things that place things on relative scales.
What is ‘Bad’, again?
28/04/2021To define what’s ethical, we need to rule out what isn’t...
also see: DESIGN IS NEVER NEUTRAL
Jarett Fuller’s collection on are.na
https://www.are.na/jarrett-fuller/design-is-never-neutral
What scares you about the future?
28/04/2021To extrapolate on the possible and plausible futures, we look at what scares people about it...
Precedent Studies
10/05/2021Learning from people’s projects on similar lines, from inside and outside of NID
Precedents within NID
Precedents outside NID
Two Interviews
09/05/2021A Senior Designer
A Graduating Design Student