Abstract

Futures Literacy is the capability to imagine and understand potential futures to prepare ourselves to act and innovate in the present. This pilot study aims to understand how artistic methodologies and speculative design can support the collaborative exploration of futures in the context of work and contribute to developing peoples’ capability of futures literacy. Our premise is that technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of things can augment people and support their needs at work. To illustrate this process, we have presented a collaborative method that integrates an artistic intervention with speculative design activities. We tested the method in a full-day workshop with seventeen (17) participants from a Swedish academy responsible for enabling learning and competence development at work in the healthcare sector. The results indicate that the artistic intervention, combined with the speculative design activities, can challenge current participants’ perspectives and offer them new ways of seeing futures with technologies. These new ways of seeing reveal underlying premises crucial in developing the capability of futures literacy.

Details

Title
CO-DESIGNING TECHNOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN DEVELOPING FUTURES LITERACY THROUGH SPECULATIVE DESIGN AND AN ARTISTIC INTERVENTION
Author
Álvaro Aranda Muñoz 1 ; Nina Bozic Yams 2 ; Carlgren, Lisa 2 

 Mälardalen University; RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden 
 RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden 
Pages
957-966
Section
Article
Publication year
2023
Publication date
Jul 2023
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
e-ISSN
2732-527X
Source type
Conference Paper
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2886571643
Copyright
The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons  Attribution – Non-Commercial – No Derivatives License This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work. (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.