Decentering the Human in the Design of Collaborative Cities
Decentering the Human in the Design of Collaborative Cities
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协作城市设计中的人的去中心化
作者：
Laura Forlano
目前正在重新设计以传感器和数据为核心的城市。环境监测、犯罪追踪和交通地图只是正在重塑城市的社会技术系统的几个例子。这些系统是政治、价值观和伦理的新兴场所，人类和非人类行为者在这里合作、谈判和辩论各自城市的未来。一方面，它们可以用于预测、测量和决策，但另一方面，它们也可以被用来想象其他可能的城市未来。设计师在调解、理解和干预这些项目方面发挥着重要作用，这些项目处于包括政府、企业和公民在内的各种利益相关者的工作的交叉点。本文利用科学与技术研究(STS)来思考设计师如何发展现有的以人为中心的设计(HCD)方法，以应对巨大的经济和环境危机时期的社会技术复杂性。特别是，本文认为，有必要创建和探索去中心化人类的方法论，认真对待非人类，以便有意义地参与城市设计，以更负责任、更负责任和更符合道德的方式参与新兴技术的参与。
Cities are currently being redesigned with sensors and data at their core. Environmental monitoring, crime tracking and traffic mapping are just a few examples of the socio-technical systems that are remaking cities. These systems are emergent sites of politics, values, and ethics where human and nonhuman actors collaborate, negotiate and debate the futures of their cities. One the one hand, they can be used for prediction, measurement and decision-making, but, on the other hand, they can also be harnessed to imagine alternative possible urban futures. Designers have an important role to play in mediating, making sense of, and intervening in these projects, which are at the intersection of the work of a variety of stakeholders including governments, business and citizens. This article draws on science and technology studies (STS) to think through ways designers can evolve existing human-centered design (HCD) methodologies to contend with socio-technical complexity at a time of great economic and environmental crisis. In particular, this article argues that it is necessary to create and explore methodologies that decenter the human and take the nonhuman seriously in order to meaningfully engage in the design of cities with more responsible, accountable, and ethical ways of engaging with emerging technologies.