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’

5/04/2021

Reflecting 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

11/04/2021

Re-posing the same questions through a different structure.



Artificial Futures

13/04/2021

After asking humans, an attempt at asking the same questions to an AI.




On Hiatus

17-21/04/2021

Stopped working because COVID struck



Common Threads between People’s Imaginations and the AI

23/04/2021

Are 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

25/04/2021

Alignment charts, and other things that place things on relative scales.



What is ‘Bad’, again?

28/04/2021

To 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?

28/04/2021

To extrapolate on the possible and plausible futures, we look at what scares people about it...


Precedent Studies

10/05/2021

Learning from people’s projects on similar lines, from inside and outside of NID

Precedents within NID

Precedents outside NID





Two Interviews

09/05/2021

A Senior Designer


A Graduating Design Student




         

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