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about design fictions

This week’s reading about design fiction is totally a new concept to me. Bruce Sterling defines design fiction as “the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend belief’s about change.” It is to speculate about new ideas and think about the future. In another word from Matthew Ward in Design Fiction as Pedagogic Practice, “We always design for a world that sits, sometimes just slightly, out of sight. We engage in a complex set of actors in order to move our fictions into the realm of the real”. Design fiction is useful in a way that asking the ‘what if ‘ question actually provokes so many possibilities. Hollywood movies always explore what our future can be like. How about The Daily Prophet in the Harry Potter movies – the interactive newspaper?  What if people are able to touch different parts of the paper to watch advertising clips or listen to audio reporters? This idea is innovative. Could it become the reality? That would be cool if it existed.

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