Speculation and the Design of Development
This paper examines the role of technoscientific speculation in large-scale development projects in postcolonial spaces, building on recent work in STS, design research, and postcolonial studies in and beyond CSCW. We analyze two historical cases of technology-infused development projects in the Can...
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cracm:10.1145/3449195 2024-05-19T07:44:16+00:00 Speculation and the Design of Development Sengers, Phoebe Williams, Kaiton Khovanskaya, Vera US National Science Foundation 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3449195 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3449195 en eng Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction volume 5, issue CSCW1, page 1-27 ISSN 2573-0142 journal-article 2021 cracm https://doi.org/10.1145/3449195 2024-05-01T06:44:51Z This paper examines the role of technoscientific speculation in large-scale development projects in postcolonial spaces, building on recent work in STS, design research, and postcolonial studies in and beyond CSCW. We analyze two historical cases of technology-infused development projects in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and in Jamaica. We find that speculation in these contexts remixes the constructive stance toward speculation typical for normative technoscience with the critical, contesting orientation of speculative design. Conflicts between these stances are resolved by leveraging fantasy for pragmatic ends, grounding audacious fictions in imported realities, unmooring from conventional understandings of linear technological progress, and using even conservative futures to trouble colonial conventions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland ACM Publications (Association for Computing Machinery) Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5 CSCW1 1 27 |
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This paper examines the role of technoscientific speculation in large-scale development projects in postcolonial spaces, building on recent work in STS, design research, and postcolonial studies in and beyond CSCW. We analyze two historical cases of technology-infused development projects in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and in Jamaica. We find that speculation in these contexts remixes the constructive stance toward speculation typical for normative technoscience with the critical, contesting orientation of speculative design. Conflicts between these stances are resolved by leveraging fantasy for pragmatic ends, grounding audacious fictions in imported realities, unmooring from conventional understandings of linear technological progress, and using even conservative futures to trouble colonial conventions. |
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