Anti-Solutionist Strategies: Seriously Silly Design Fiction
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Argues that quick tech fixes and glossy mockup ads reproduce solutionism traced to modernist city planning and that images often foreclose critique. Runs lo-fi Magic Machines workshops using cardboard, string and Photoshop to produce artifacts — Listenator for eavesdropping on council meetings, a dog-and-cat-poo DNA detector, Hacker’s Hat, and a Technology-Resistant Nonagenarian Scooter Movement — tested in public and with elders; finds tactile absurd prototypes open conversations and repurposing, whereas slick diegetic ads shut them down.
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