Designing Against the Status Quo is a one-day workshop to be held on 5 June 2016 in conjunction with Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2016, 4-8 June 2016, Brisbane, Australia.
In this one-day workshop, we interrogate design strategies such as troubling, friction, queering, and contestation that aim to question the status quo (e.g., Light 2011, Korn and Voida 2015, DiSalvo 2011). In ways that are playful, heretical, theoretical, and applied we examine tactics that make space for alternative values to emerge in everyday life. As we design interactive systems that, on the one hand, seek to be accountable in responding to current and future societal challenges, and, on the other, are becoming ever more complex, we ask what trends in destabilizing and rethinking may help us innovate in both method and outcome.
We invite 2-4 page position papers from practitioners and researchers. Key topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Provisional elaborations: What does it mean to orient toward design from a perspective of troubling and/or creating friction? What are we turning toward in making such moves? From what are we turning away? Why (when, how) are these techniques needed or useful or generative – or not?
Bibliographies and theoretical provocations: Discussions of relevant readings and theoretical resources; theoretical provocations about design strategies for troubling, creating friction, provoking contest; accounts participants’ intellectual genealogies — how did you come upon strategies of troubling, friction, or contest in your work?
Examples and cases: Objects and artifacts that embody troubling or friction; methods and tactics for troubling or friction; empirical cases, attempts, and outcomes of troubling or friction at play; we are especially interested in examining how such orientations and tactics might be taken up in the work of creating everyday and mundane technologies in addition to more artistic projects.
Re-inventions and re-imaginings: Re-readings of already existing design papers and projects for what is not mentioned, asked, or oriented to.
Opportunities and open questions: Provocations for future work. What is apparent as missing in the elaboration, bibliography, and cases surfaced and shared at the workshop? Where is new work needed? What are some domains in which this approach could be generative? What are some elements of a research agenda moving forward?
Submission Details
Submissions may be prepared in a format of the authors choosing, and should be approximately 2-4 pages in length. If you would like a template to start from, feel free to use the ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts format (including the image-centric Pictorials variation). We also invite other submission formats that embody subversions – of which we cannot (of course) conceive in advance. Ideally all submissions should be in a form that allows sharing via this website in advance of the workshop itself.
Please email submissions to the organizers at status.quo.dis2016@gmail.com.
Further Information:
http://status.quo.dis2016.wineme.fb5.uni-siegen.de
In this one-day workshop, we interrogate design strategies such as troubling, friction, queering, and contestation that aim to question the status quo (e.g., Light 2011, Korn and Voida 2015, DiSalvo 2011). In ways that are playful, heretical, theoretical, and applied we examine tactics that make space for alternative values to emerge in everyday life. As we design interactive systems that, on the one hand, seek to be accountable in responding to current and future societal challenges, and, on the other, are becoming ever more complex, we ask what trends in destabilizing and rethinking may help us innovate in both method and outcome.
We invite 2-4 page position papers from practitioners and researchers. Key topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Provisional elaborations: What does it mean to orient toward design from a perspective of troubling and/or creating friction? What are we turning toward in making such moves? From what are we turning away? Why (when, how) are these techniques needed or useful or generative – or not?
Bibliographies and theoretical provocations: Discussions of relevant readings and theoretical resources; theoretical provocations about design strategies for troubling, creating friction, provoking contest; accounts participants’ intellectual genealogies — how did you come upon strategies of troubling, friction, or contest in your work?
Examples and cases: Objects and artifacts that embody troubling or friction; methods and tactics for troubling or friction; empirical cases, attempts, and outcomes of troubling or friction at play; we are especially interested in examining how such orientations and tactics might be taken up in the work of creating everyday and mundane technologies in addition to more artistic projects.
Re-inventions and re-imaginings: Re-readings of already existing design papers and projects for what is not mentioned, asked, or oriented to.
Opportunities and open questions: Provocations for future work. What is apparent as missing in the elaboration, bibliography, and cases surfaced and shared at the workshop? Where is new work needed? What are some domains in which this approach could be generative? What are some elements of a research agenda moving forward?
Submission Details
Submissions may be prepared in a format of the authors choosing, and should be approximately 2-4 pages in length. If you would like a template to start from, feel free to use the ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts format (including the image-centric Pictorials variation). We also invite other submission formats that embody subversions – of which we cannot (of course) conceive in advance. Ideally all submissions should be in a form that allows sharing via this website in advance of the workshop itself.
Please email submissions to the organizers at status.quo.dis2016@gmail.com.
Further Information:
http://status.quo.dis2016.wineme.fb5.uni-siegen.de