Come do a creepy PhD with me! Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only) available, focused on exploring how making workplace technologies intentionally creepy could help create more ethical workplace technologies. Deadline: February, Friday the 13th

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/creepy-office-using-speculative-design-methods-to-explore-privacy-security-and-ethical-considerations-for-connected-workplaces/?p193932

#HCI #SpeculativeDesign #DesignFictions

*What's the "best way to do this"? Maybe not to do it at all? But people will, because it's easy. #LLM #designfictions

https://medium.com/@bruces/the-story-of-filboid-studge-or-rebuilding-imaginary-futures-4f7e954f84f5

The Story of Filboid Studge, or, Rebuilding Imaginary Futures

Recently I happened to read an old story by the British fantasist and satirist “Saki.” The story’s title was “Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse That Helped.” The story is appended to the end of…

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A #chair that can adapt over time and one fabricated with #3Dprinted #liquidmetal are among the #designs that students at #MIT came up with for The Next 150-year Chair exhibition

https://www.dezeen.com/2022/11/28/mit-students-sustainable-furniture-exhibition/

#Next150year #designfictions #futurism

MIT students develop concepts for "the next 150-year chair"

A chair that can adapt over time and one made from 3D-printed liquid metal are among the chairs MIT students created for The Next 150-year Chair exhibition.

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“Showing off our co-created #designFictions this evening at the #MCRfuturists meetup. Great group of people and lots of lively debate about the future of personal #data. @ImaginationLanc @DesignInf @dsilancaster @chrisspeed @thenewmarch @ianforrester @EPSRC #qualifedselves”

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