This one-day workshop seeks to bring together design researchers that have different orientations and practices for futures and futuring to unpack the role of futuring across design, design artefacts, and designers. Our goal in this workshop is to use examples of established futures to engage with and reflect on questions around the role of futures in HCI/design. We believe that there is a common thread between work from many different researchers, but that the people doing that work are spread across different disciplines and geographical locations. To that end, this workshop will assemble researchers working with different methods and approaches to futures in design and will aim to identify core challenges and opportunities for futures in HCI.
Call for Participation
We welcome participants at all stages and backgrounds with futuring, from people who work on futuring to people who are new and curious to futuring.This one-day workshop invites researchers who use design futures as a part of their practice. This research is structured around concerns related to how futures operate in design and HCI:• Why future? What agendas and ideas can futuring represent best?
• How are futures manifested and made material? What modes of making futures work in HCI?
• Who futures? Why do or can they? Who else can be involved or empowered? What theoretical perspectives,
persons, or topics are left outside of the “futures” frame?
• What strategies, tactics, methods, or orientations to futuring are present in HCI? What commitments and
values do they espouse? Are there others that could or should be present?
• How do we build knowledge through futuring both individually and as a research community?
• How does design futuring connect or extend notions of past and present?This workshop will combine discussions of experiences with futures and futuring, comparison of design experiences, and discussion about the underlying methods, forms, goals, and disciplinary perspectives. We ask participants to submit a design object that engages with a future in a few pages—a scenario, artefact, story, case study and so on, as well as the background, methods, and commitments that influence it. We intend to drive a participatory workshop that convenes and discusses futuring in HCI, producing an annotated portfolio mapping the futures’, methods, materials, and forms.Details of the requested submission
• PDF format
• 4 pages max, not including references. Shorter is good too!
• Include a short bio
• If you would like to optionally submit additional materials (e.g., video), please provide a link
• Using a template is not required, but if you would like to use a template, please use the template and guidelines provided for DIS papers in the single column ACM Conference Proceedings Primary Article template
• Submissions should include author names and affiliations. Submissions are not anonymous.
• Submissions can be co-authored by multiple people.Early bird deadlines:
Submissions due: May 25th
Notification of acceptance into workshop: May 28th
Last day of early bird registration is May 30th according to DIS registration informationSecond round deadlines:
Submissions due: June 5th
Notification of acceptance into workshop: June 10th
Organizers
Tom Jenkins, IT University of Copenhagen
Vasiliki Tsaknaki, IT University of Copenhagen
Noura Howell, Georgia Institute of Technology
Laurens Boer, IT University of Copenhagen
Richmond Wong, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nadia Campo Woytuk, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Peter Kun, IT University of Copenhagen
Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Oslo School of Architecture and Design