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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Speculative Design"”.
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Unwanted Project: Speculative Design for Circularity
… format of policy change, awareness enhancement, design, and innovation, to explore the potential of turning the current linear process into plastic material lifecycle into circular loops. These initiatives have laid the foundation for wide-reaching voluntary cooperation and repurposing of wasted …
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#Instafood: a speculative design exploration of the eating experience, perception, fabrication, and consumption.
… requires more innovative approaches. Grounded in speculative design, this study introduces InstaFood, an approach to personalized eating for well-being. It speculates a future possibility of influencing intake by manipulating food-related visual cues, through a combination of perceptual impacts, …
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Ideas Exchange: Design and the post bio-tech-body
This thesis situates speculative design as a valuable tool for thinking about design issues and the body. Bringing together historical, theoretical criticism and practice to show that speculative design is intimately linked with the body. The thesis’ arguments build on the basis that both the body …
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Astral Projections. Examining Arts-Based Pedagogy (ABP), Afrofuturism (AfF), and Speculative Design (SpD) as methods to process (Dis)connections and Connections between pedagogical practices utilized at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) and Collegiate Black Men (CBM).
… pedagogy (ABP), Afrofuturism (AfF), and speculative design (SpD) as tools that utilize imaginative solutions, cultural inclusivity, and arts-based teaching methods to process (dis)connections and connections between pedagogical practices utilized at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) …
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The Ever-Evolving Object: The Role of ‘Incentive Aesthetics’ In Fashion Design Education
… Aesthetics (IA) within the context of fashion design education, with a focus on sustainability and speculative design. Originally conceived to integrate technological and visual affordances into the design of luxury fashion artefacts, IA is repositioned latterly to inspire educational reform in …
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Open source estrogen : from biomolecules to biopolitics... hormones with institutional biopower!
… Open Source Estrogen combines biohacking and speculative design to demonstrate the entrenched ways in which estrogen is a biomolecule with institutional biopower. It is a form of biotechnical civil disobedience, seeking to subvert dominant biopolitical agents of hormonal management, knowledge …
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Reparative Preservation through Immersive 3D Documentation: Cultural Memory, Spatial Justice, and Gullah Geechee Futures on Daufuskie Island
… ambient videos, and symbolic interface design rooted in Gullah epistemologies. It is guided by two research questions: How can immersive documentation support reparative preservation for communities at risk of spatial erasure? And what frameworks—technical, ethical, and political—ensure …
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Elastic design. Tools for alternative understandings
… measurement tape. Unexpectedly, a space for speculative thoughts is genuinely expanding your mind. This practice-based project in speculative design explores possibilities for disrupting everyday constructs of reality, which are apparent in regulations of time, space and matter. These …
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Fugitive Architecture: Obsolescence, Aspiration, and Adaptation in Vancouver's Urbanizing Industrial Areas
… economics and urban planning. Profit-driven design methodologies diminish a building's material quality and longevity, adversely impacting life-cycle outcomes. Central to this thesis is a new design approach that embraces obsolescence and uses adaptability to prolong building lifespans while …
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Engaging homelessness: Facilitating change through architectural intervention
… off the street. The Dissertation culminates in a speculative design project near the fringe of Cape Town's CBD. The project deals with an undeveloped parcel of land, as well as the addition to and alterations of an existing Salvation Army building.
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Civil War Twin: Exploring Ethical Challenges in Designing an Educational Face Recognition Application
… accuracy, yet little guidance is available for designers and developers. We explore solutions to these challenges in a four-phase design process to create Civil War Twin (CWT), an educational web-based application where users can discover their lookalikes from the American Civil War era …
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Between Swamp and Sea: Agroforestry as Wetland Restoration in Southeast Virginia
… National Wildlife Refuge, this applied research design project investigates how adaptive landscape strategies can facilitate marsh migration without sacrificing forested wetland or productive value. Observational studies of marsh migration into coastal forests are well documented, though the …
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An investigation of the relationship between typography and audio-based communication in the urban environment, with particular regard to pedestrian wayfinding
… there were few examples of wayfinding design that employ a combination of text and audio design currently existing within the external environments investigated in the case studies. It was also indicated that signage overload and visual clutter made pedestrian wayfinding problematic in …
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Convergence: The Gas Station and the Future of Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
… emerging EV infrastructure network. Through the speculative design of two gas stations, this thesis proposes a networked strategy and toolkit for the reinvention of the fueling network. Balancing site-specific conditions against the need for a network application, the design proposal speaks to …
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A view of the Green Line: a renewal plan for visual experience in Chicago’s South Side stations
… assets both to riders and neighborhoods. This speculative design project proposes sequential forms that not only shape the elevated rapid transit railroad visual experience and deepen the rider`s grasp of the meaning of the South Side of Chicago, but may also retell the story of this racialized …
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Professional development in landscape architecture: professionalization, geographic trends, and research consumption
… academic or professional literature, entering speculative design competitions, pursuing advanced degrees, or attending professional conferences. However, there are few available studies on the current (or historical) status of professional development in the field of landscape architecture. …
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Regeneration through decay: Architectural prosthetic within the damaged coastline of the South African West Coast
… of permanence and impermanence this results in a speculative design which is nestled within the impacts of time. Stretching the potential of architecture to become an extension of the landscape itself, whilst dissolving silently as if it never existed becoming a form of structure. Through acting …
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Necropolis: burial & afterlives in Cape Town
… Park has a varied heritage landscape which the design situates itself beside, together constituting a landscape of remembrance. The programme explores a secular spiritual and sacred response to burial, grief and memory. The architectural language explores a stereotomics of brick, stone and …
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The Precarity of Images: Sci-fi Worldbuilding and its Uses in Agitprop
… can be tested and questioned. Drawing from speculative design practices, the paper looks at how illustration and design build on literature’s capabilities for making other futures or realities plausible enough that an audience can critically engage them. The paper unpacks exercises from …
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