Design for existential crisis in the anthropocene age
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Design for existential crisis in the anthropocene age. / Light, Ann; Powell, Alison; Shklovski, Irina.
C and T 2017 - 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Conference Proceedings. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2017. s. 270-279 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Bind Part F128532).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Design for existential crisis in the anthropocene age
AU - Light, Ann
AU - Powell, Alison
AU - Shklovski, Irina
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).
PY - 2017/6/26
Y1 - 2017/6/26
N2 - What should be our orientation to the socio-technical as climate predictions worsen; ecological crises and wars escalate mass migration and refugee numbers; right-wing populism sweeps through politics; automation threatens workers' jobs and austerity policies destabilize society? What is to be done when it is not "business as usual" and even broken concepts of progress seem no longer to be progressing? We ask how to design for the common good, focusing on human needs for meaning, fulfillment, dignity and decency, qualities which technology struggles to support but can easily undermine. We juxtapose the design of computing that offers hope with that which offers only distraction, propose four modes to design for (being attentive, critical, different and in it together) and conclude with a plea to avoid tools that encourage a blinkered existence at a time of great uncertainty and change.
AB - What should be our orientation to the socio-technical as climate predictions worsen; ecological crises and wars escalate mass migration and refugee numbers; right-wing populism sweeps through politics; automation threatens workers' jobs and austerity policies destabilize society? What is to be done when it is not "business as usual" and even broken concepts of progress seem no longer to be progressing? We ask how to design for the common good, focusing on human needs for meaning, fulfillment, dignity and decency, qualities which technology struggles to support but can easily undermine. We juxtapose the design of computing that offers hope with that which offers only distraction, propose four modes to design for (being attentive, critical, different and in it together) and conclude with a plea to avoid tools that encourage a blinkered existence at a time of great uncertainty and change.
KW - Change
KW - Decency
KW - Design
KW - Dignity
KW - Fulfillment
KW - Meaning
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U2 - 10.1145/3083671.3083688
DO - 10.1145/3083671.3083688
M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:85025134195
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 270
EP - 279
BT - C and T 2017 - 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Conference Proceedings
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies: Technologies for the Common Good, C and T 2017
Y2 - 26 June 2017 through 30 June 2017
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