Designing Speculative Civics
summary
Design research produces three concrete prototypes and claims: a set of hundreds of information icons that model how digital property shifts during divorce to surface mediated civics; a live web prototype that queries geo‑located tweets within five miles, plots them on a map, runs basic sentiment analysis and reveals surprising slippages (traffic searches return Comcast complaints) to illustrate computed civics; and an off‑the‑shelf drone flown around pear trees (with some crashes) plus image‑counting experiments that probe proxied civics and show mixed viability.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to Speculative Civics
- 1:08Civic Tech and Speculative Design
- 4:20Three Key Projects Overview
- 6:05Mediated Civics and Icon Design
- 7:56Computed Civics and Data Democracy
- 9:44Proxied Civics and Drone Foraging
- 13:00Three Themes in Speculative Civics
- 16:31Conclusion and Limitations
- 17:56Q&A Session