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View article: Haunted Houses: Architecture and Large Language Models
Haunted Houses: Architecture and Large Language Models Open
Considering the vast datasets that constitute artificial intelligence, it might be assumed that there is no place for the ghostly or ambiguous among the binary logics of the all‐knowing algorithm. Explaining that this is not in fact the ca…
View article: Baking An Institutional Doughnut: A Systemic Design Journey for Diverse Stakeholder Engagement
Baking An Institutional Doughnut: A Systemic Design Journey for Diverse Stakeholder Engagement Open
Doughnut Economics offers a contemporary compass for navigating the complexities of creating a safe and just space where humanity can flourish while respecting ecological boundaries. This pictorial reports on how the Doughnut Economics mod…
View article: Designing with Transactional Data: FTML and Money/Data Laundering
Designing with Transactional Data: FTML and Money/Data Laundering Open
In a digital, and cashless economy, transactional data has become ubiquitous, telling and highly valuable. Yet, this data is rarely considered critically as a material for design. This pictorial presents two successive Research through Des…
View article: Pheno-data: knowledge from tomatoes' becoming with different ecological worlds
Pheno-data: knowledge from tomatoes' becoming with different ecological worlds Open
Western industrialised societies are increasingly accustomed to imagining and constructing the world through a vision of data that prioritises economic, social, and technological enhancement for some humans - while sidelining the livingnes…
View article: A Token Gesture: Non-Transferable NFTs, Digital Possessions and Ownership Design
A Token Gesture: Non-Transferable NFTs, Digital Possessions and Ownership Design Open
This paper presents the design, deployment and qualitative study of a large-scale, public, generative art exhibition, through which passers-by could create artworks, and mint a non-fungible-token (NFT). Following the month-long exhibition,…
View article: Decentralised creative economies and transactional creative communities
Decentralised creative economies and transactional creative communities Open
While the past decade has seen cuts to public funding to the arts, it has also seen the development of online technologies which have the potential to reach increasingly diverse and global audiences. As a result, individuals and organisati…
View article: Data-Driven Innovation in the Creative Industries
Data-Driven Innovation in the Creative Industries Open
The creative industries – the place where art, business, and technology meet in economic activity – have been hugely affected by the relatively recent digitalisation (and often monetisation) of work, home, relationships, and leisure. Such …
View article: On Disused Connected Devices: Understanding Disuse, “Holding On,” and Barriers to Circularity
On Disused Connected Devices: Understanding Disuse, “Holding On,” and Barriers to Circularity Open
In this article, we explore the complex phenomena behind why people “hold on” to disused connected devices, focusing especially on differences between “traditional” smartphones and computers, and newer categories of smart home devices, wea…
View article: Pheno-data: using tomatoes to rethink data and data practice for ecological worlds
Pheno-data: using tomatoes to rethink data and data practice for ecological worlds Open
Notions of data increasingly revolve around digital representations prioritizing the efficiency and productivity of global economic-systems, often side-lining tangible and local information that is crucial for 'more-than-human' worlds. To …
View article: Design is… redefining measurement – confrontation with climate catastrophe: Beyond objectivity and towards regenerative impact
Design is… redefining measurement – confrontation with climate catastrophe: Beyond objectivity and towards regenerative impact Open
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View article: Design after things
Design after things Open
The term 'ecologies' evokes either an environmental image of a biological community of interacting organisms or one adopted from start-up cultures of Silicon Valley. Between the two is co-creation: a concept that may be useful in helping n…
View article: Money: Who Has a Stake in the Most Value-Centric Common Design Material?
Money: Who Has a Stake in the Most Value-Centric Common Design Material? Open
Money is more than just a numeric value. It embodies trust and moral gravity, and it offers flexible ways to transact. However, the emergence of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is set to bring about a drastic change in the future of m…
View article: A non-custodial wallet for digital currency: design challenges and opportunities
A non-custodial wallet for digital currency: design challenges and opportunities Open
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a novel form of money that could be issued and regulated by central banks, offering benefits such as programmability, security, and privacy. However, the design of a CBDC system presents numerous tec…
View article: User-friendly interactive affective system to leverage aggressive driving behavior
User-friendly interactive affective system to leverage aggressive driving behavior Open
Aggressive driving behavior has been proven to be one of the major contributors to road accidents. Traditional solutions to leverage aggressive driving behavior still have some obvious shortcomings such as low user experience and unsatisfa…
View article: AI and the Conditions of Design: Towards A New Set of Design Ideals
AI and the Conditions of Design: Towards A New Set of Design Ideals Open
The five papers in the DRS 2022 track “AI and the Conditions of Design: Towards A New Set of Design Ideals” offer radical lenses to change the narrative around AI and open pathways towards pluralist digital futures, signaling redirections …
View article: The future of money as a design material
The future of money as a design material Open
For many years the primary representation of value has been money. However complex we perceive its material, social and symbolic characteristics, money is now undergoing significant change as it becomes data. This paper explores the implic…
View article: AI and the Conditions of Design: Towards A New Set of Design Ideals
AI and the Conditions of Design: Towards A New Set of Design Ideals Open
The five papers in the DRS 2022 track “AI and the Conditions of Design: Towards A New Set of Design Ideals” offer radical lenses to change the narrative around AI and open pathways towards pluralist digital futures, signaling redirections …
View article: Effect of Different Corticosteroid Dosing Regimens on Clinical Outcomes in Boys With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Effect of Different Corticosteroid Dosing Regimens on Clinical Outcomes in Boys With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Open
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01603407.
View article: StyleBabel: Artistic Style Tagging and Captioning
StyleBabel: Artistic Style Tagging and Captioning Open
We present StyleBabel, a unique open access dataset of natural language captions and free-form tags describing the artistic style of over 135K digital artworks, collected via a novel participatory method from experts studying at specialist…
View article: StyleBabel: Artistic Style Tagging and Captioning
StyleBabel: Artistic Style Tagging and Captioning Open
We present StyleBabel, a unique open access dataset of natural language captions and free-form tags describing the artistic style of over 135K digital artworks, collected via a novel participatory method from experts studying at specialist…
View article: Blockchain and Beyond: Understanding Blockchains through Prototypes and Public Engagement
Blockchain and Beyond: Understanding Blockchains through Prototypes and Public Engagement Open
This paper presents an annotated portfolio of projects that seek to understand and communicate the social and societal implications of blockchains, distributed ledgers and smart contracts. These complex technologies rely on human and techn…
View article: A ‘seamless’ experience of data sharing through a ‘seamful’ engagement
A ‘seamless’ experience of data sharing through a ‘seamful’ engagement Open
This paper explores conceptually and empirically the complex and multi-layered networks of interaction where personal data is shared across different platforms. This is explored through the vocabulary and tensions established by ‘seamful’ …
View article: Crypto Collectibles, Museum Funding and OpenGLAM: Challenges, Opportunities and the Potential of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
Crypto Collectibles, Museum Funding and OpenGLAM: Challenges, Opportunities and the Potential of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) Open
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) make it technically possible for digital assets to be owned and traded, introducing the concept of scarcity in the digital realm for the first time. Resulting from this technical development, this paper asks the …
View article: Making Everyday Things Talk: Speculative Conversations into the Future of Voice Interfaces at Home
Making Everyday Things Talk: Speculative Conversations into the Future of Voice Interfaces at Home Open
What if things had a voice? What if we could talk directly to things instead of using a mediating voice interface such as an Alexa or a Google Assistant? In this paper, we share our insights from talking to a pair of boots, a tampon, a per…
View article: Creative Transactions: Special Digital Monies in ‘Break Kickstarter’ Crowdfunding Campaigns
Creative Transactions: Special Digital Monies in ‘Break Kickstarter’ Crowdfunding Campaigns Open
This paper conceptualizes 'creative transactions' – payment for creative work – as a rich site for the study, design and innovation of new financial technologies, and 'special digital monies'. For most, creative labor remains highly precar…