Abstract
In this talk, I reflect on how my Studio’s design of a self-build nature camera led to three new research directions: a scaled-up programme of community technology design; speculative worldbuilding exploring more-than-human cities, digital farming, and the future of London; and recent work on multispecies design that has led me to spend surprising amounts of time in zoos. Rather than claiming coherence, I will argue that these directions braid together a set of commitments about how technologies might support more equitable, inclusive futures.
Short Bio
Bill Gaver is Professor of Design and co-leader of the Interaction Research Studio at the University of Northumbria, London. With the Studio, he has developed novel approaches for pursuing design as research over the course of numerous practice-based projects, many of which have been published and exhibited internationally. He came to Design as a lapsed psychologist and cognitive scientist with a background in HCI and Politics and long-standing engagements with Sociology and STS. This has allowed him to make distinctive contributions to a portfolio of work that includes research products, methodologies and conceptual insights for and about practice-based design research, with an emphasis on ambiguity, ludic design, and emergence.