More thoughts on Design Fictions feat. Bruce Sterling
Design fiction:
- an approach to design that speculates about new ideas through prototyping and storytelling
- the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change
Some examples of this diegetic prototyping, also described as the fictional making as a way to think about real things, can be found on the aptly named Tumblr: Diegetic Prototypes.
I particularly like the ‘Robot readable world’ video below, which has immediately sparked numerous ‘What if?’s and ‘How can we use this?’s and ‘What about if?’s, so despite some trepidation in reading about diegetic prototyping, I think I might be a convert after seeing some examples.
Robot readable world from Timo on Vimeo.