“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.”

_{Ursula K. Le Guin,

The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination}

Resources

An ongoing
and
incomplete
list of resources
related to this interdisciplinary exploration.

Research

Wilcox, Lauren, Robin Brewer, and Fernando Diaz. AI Consent Futures: A Case Study on Voice Data Collection with Clinicians. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 7.CSCW2 (2023): 1-30.
Delgado, Fernando, Stephen Yang, Michael Madaio, and Qian Yang. The Participatory Turn in AI Design: Theoretical Foundations and the Current State of Practice. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, pp. 1-23. 2023.
Harrington, Christina N., Shamika Klassen, and Yolanda A. Rankin. All that You Touch, You Change”: Expanding the Canon of Speculative Design Towards Black Futuring. Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2022.
Joseph Donia and James A. Shaw. 2021. Co-design and ethical artificial intelligence for health: An agenda for critical research and practice. Big Data & Society 8, 2(2021).
Bray, Kirsten, and Christina Harrington. Speculative blackness: Considering afrofuturism in the creation of inclusive speculative design probes. Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. 2021.

Harrington, Christina, and Tawanna R. Dillahunt. Eliciting tech futures among Black young adults: A case study of remote speculative co-design. Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2021.
Khan, Awais Hameed, et al. Speculative design for education: Using participatory methods to map design challenges and opportunities in Pakistan. Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 2021.
Fiesler, Casey. Ethical considerations for research involving (speculative) public data. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 3.GROUP (2019): 1-13.
Frischmann, Brett M. and Susan Benesch. Friction-In-Design Regulation as 21st Century Time, Place and Manner Restriction. Place and Manner Restriction (2022).

Forlano, Laura and Anijo Mathew. 2014. From Design Fiction to Design Friction: Speculative and Participatory Design of Values-Embedded Urban Technology. Journal of Urban Technology, Special Issue on Urban Informatics.
Joseph Lindley and Paul Coulton. 2015. Back to the Future: 10 Years of Design Fiction. In Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference (Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom) (British HCI ’15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 210–211.
Pérez Comisso, Martín, and Dayna Jeffrey. "Why Decenter Images of the Future Matter: Absences, Alternatives, and Accomplishments Challenging Future Visions." World Futures Review (2023): 19467567231164460.
Upol Ehsan, Q. Vera Liao, Samir Passi, Mark O. Riedl, and Hal Daume III. Seamful XAI: Operationalizing Seamful Design in Explainable AI. arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.06753 (2022).
Elena Esposito, Katrin Sold, and Bénédicte Zimmermann. 2021. Systems Theory and Algorithmic Futures: Interview with Elena Esposito. Constructivist Foundations 16, no. 3.

Policy

Beuc European Consumer Organisation. An effective choice screen under the Digital Markets Act. 2023.

Books

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. (2011). Friction: An ethnography of global connection. Princeton University Press.
Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby. (2013). Speculative everything: design, fiction, and social dreaming. MIT press.
Carl DiSalvo. Design as democratic inquiry: putting experimental civics into practice. MIT Press, 2022.
Jenny L. Davis. How artifacts afford: The power and politics of everyday things. MIT Press, 2020.
Hayagreeva Rao and Robert I. Sutton. The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder. 2023.
Kat Holmes. Mismatch: How inclusion shapes design. Mit Press, 2020.

Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal and Sarah Dillon (2020): AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines, Oxford University Press. 424 pp
Tamara Kneese. 2021. Our Silicon Valley, Ourselves. Boundary 2.
S. Candy and Watson, J., 2015. The thing from the future. The APF methods anthology London: Association of Professional Futurists.
Calo, M. Ryan, Batya Friedman, Tadayoshi Kohno, Hannah Almeter, and Nick Logler. 2020. Telling Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence. University of Washington Tech Policy Lab.
Yuk Hui. (2021). Art and cosmotechnics. University of Minnesota Press.
Renée Richardson Gosline. 2022. Why AI Customer Journeys Need More Friction. Harvard Business Review.

Other

Theresa Hice-Fromille and Sarah Papazoglakis. (2023). DIVERSE SPECULATIVE FUTURES: 2024 Top 10 Reading List. The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz.