Co-producing design fictions as part of everyday utopian practice
Paper presented at: Utopias, Futures and Temporalities: Critical Considerations for Social Change, Bristol, 19th – 20th 2015.
Dr James Duggan ESRI, MMU
[email protected] @dugganjr
Joseph Lindley University of Lancaster
[email protected]@joegalen
Design Fiction
• Design fictions - science fiction, science fact and design to create diegetic prototypes
• Prototypes exist within ‘story worlds’ (Bleecker 2009)
• ‘Suspend disbelief about change’ (Sterling 2012) • Design (use and utility) and fiction (utopian,
narrative, plot and story etc) • Future mundane (Foster 2013)
Design Fiction and Everyday Utopias
• Everyday utopias (Cooper 2014) • Similarities - design fiction and everyday utopianism • Opportunities - intentionality and the collective
authorship of preferable futures (Garforth 2009), driven by the aspiration, anticipation and imagination of individuals and communities (Appadurai 2013)
• Co-produced design fictions as everyday utopian articulation and enactment?
Ranciere
“The police, to begin with, is defined as an organisational system of coordinates that establishes a distribution of the sensible or a law that divides the community into groups, social positions and functions. This law implicitly separates those who take part from those who are excluded, and it includes a prior aesthetic division between the visible and invisible, the audible and inaudible, the sayable and unsayable.”
Sans papiers to sans duty
The Sans Duty Project
• Brixton Pound (B£) – a local currency and everyday utopian community
• Aim: do for tax what the B£ does for money• Create a community-based, practical alternative• Co-produce design fictions– Workshop – Develop artefact – Film community members (in 2018) – Present speculative documentary as stimulus for
discussion about tax at workshop