Radical Futures: Supporting Community-Led Design Engagements through an Afrofuturist Speculative Design Toolkit
Radical Futures: Supporting Community-Led Design Engagements through an Afrofuturist Speculative Design Toolkit
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激进的未来：通过非洲未来主义思辨设计工具包支持社区主导的设计活动
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10.1145/3491102.3501945
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2022
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Jennifer Roberts
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Kirsten E. Bray;C. Harrington;A. Parker;N'Deye Diakhate;Jennifer Roberts
在考虑共同设计的民主意图时，设计师和设计研究人员必须评估嵌入在共同设计和研究动态中的权力失衡的影响。这一点在与边缘化社区合作和为边缘化社区工作时尤其如此，他们经常被排除在设计过程之外。为了解决这个问题，我们研究了现有的设计工具和方法如何在社区建设或重新想象的过程中支持社区，考虑到种族和身份的影响。本文描述了我们对社区设计从业者进行的27次访谈的结果，这些访谈是为了评估建筑乌托邦工具包，该工具包使用非未来主义镜头进行思辨设计过程。我们的研究结果支持了设计工具的重要性，这些工具在设计中引发了关于种族的对话，以及对富有想象力的设计实践的渴望与社会问题的紧迫性之间的紧张关系，特别是在与黑人和棕色社区进行设计时。
When considering the democratic intentions of co-design, designers and design researchers must evaluate the impact of power imbalances embedded in common design and research dynamics. This holds particularly true in work with and for marginalized communities, who are frequently excluded in design processes. To address this issue, we examine how existing design tools and methods are used to support communities in processes of community building or reimagining, considering the influence of race and identity. This paper describes our findings from 27 interviews with community design practitioners conducted to evaluate the Building Utopia toolkit, which employs an Afrofuturist lens for speculative design processes. Our research findings support the importance of design tools that prompt conversations on race in design, and tensions between the desire for imaginative design practice and the immediacy of social issues, particularly when designing with Black and brown communities.