Instrumentalising the imagination: science fiction prototyping as posthumanist methodology.

IF 1.2 3区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Michael Szollosy
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Imagination and narrative are of vital importance in understanding how we conceive of our potential (disability) futures, and the role technology has in shaping our realities. The concept of 'science fiction prototyping' (SFP) is not only useful for articulating how narrative can be used to foster imaginations about potential future worlds, but also for creating a methodology through which we can understand how the imagination can work as a tool for co-designing better futures. Johnson's conception of SFP (2011) serves as a useful starting place, but we need to more critically examine this (and related) conceptions. As Johnson himself admits, his is more of a 'how-to book' than a scholarly framework for research, and the key ideas that underpin his concept of SFP (eg, imagination, narrative) are underdeveloped. Most importantly, for all the claims as SFP being part of an exercise in 'future casting', the assumptions that are the foundations of Johnson's book are resolutely and obsoletely humanist, despite co-design methodologies inherently reaching for something beyond the old humanist categories. By closely recontextualising SFP and examining its ideological origins, we will find important new directions to exploit and use in our work. Specifically, we explore how a more thoroughly conceived and developed SFP methodology is a posthumanist approach to co-design that better builds on a self-reflexive understanding of how cultural imaginations and our futures both shape and are shaped by our interactions with technology. This allows us to create a better methodology for a co-design practice that is more explicitly aware of how we use narratives and talk about our futures, and helps us to bridge co-design practice with more critical ways of thinking about how posthuman imaginations (personal, social, cultural, political) are constructed and instrumentalised.

将想象力工具化:科幻小说原型作为后人文主义方法论。
想象和叙述对于理解我们如何设想潜在的(残疾)未来,以及技术在塑造我们的现实中所扮演的角色至关重要。“科幻原型”(SFP)的概念不仅有助于阐明如何使用叙事来培养对潜在未来世界的想象力,而且还创造了一种方法,通过这种方法,我们可以理解想象力如何作为共同设计更美好未来的工具。约翰逊的SFP概念(2011)作为一个有用的起点,但我们需要更严格地检查这个(和相关)概念。正如Johnson自己承认的那样,他的书更像是一本“指南书”,而不是一个学术研究框架,支撑SFP概念的关键思想(如想象力、叙事)还没有得到充分的发展。最重要的是,对于所有声称SFP是“未来铸造”练习的一部分,作为约翰逊书的基础的假设是坚决和过时的人文主义,尽管协同设计方法本质上超越了旧的人文主义类别。通过重新审视SFP及其意识形态的起源,我们将在我们的工作中找到重要的新方向。具体来说,我们探索了一种更彻底的构想和发展的SFP方法如何成为一种后人文主义的协同设计方法,这种方法更好地建立在对文化想象和我们的未来如何被我们与技术的互动所塑造和塑造的自我反思的理解之上。这使我们能够为协同设计实践创造一种更好的方法,更明确地意识到我们如何使用叙事和谈论我们的未来,并帮助我们将协同设计实践与更批判性的思考方式联系起来,思考后人类想象力(个人、社会、文化、政治)是如何构建和工具化的。
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Medical Humanities
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2.60
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59
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