Design and the Social Construction of AI

Seminario online Design and the Social Construction of AI, tenuto da Tobias Revell.

Quando: Lunedì 3 novembre, ore 16.30
Dove: Online al link: http://tiny.cc/xzbu001
Relatore: Tobias Revell, Arup

Abstract: As futures are increasingly foreclosed by dominant tech narratives of power, speed, efficiency, and consumption, it becomes crucial to question the role of design in constructing and telling these stories. This talk introduces strategies and techniques used in constructing future imaginaries of AI through design and explores how critical design practice can challenge, problematize, and reveal these dominant narratives and propose alternatives. The talk introduces examination of the mainstream narratives, ideas, assumptions, and biases reciprocated by designers in framing AI. Whether through stock imagery, science fiction, documentaries, demonstrations, trade shows, adverts, or viral videos, the design vernacular around AI often secures certain imaginaries, typically related to maintaining power. Conversely, critical practitioners have been developing tools and techniques to challenge these tendencies, proposing feminist, queer, sustainable, and inclusive approaches to framing and developing AI.

Bio: Tobias Revell is a digital artist and designer from London, he is Design Futures Lead at Arup Foresight where he leads the team in delivering large-scale strategic projects for internal and external clients. He was co-founder of design research consultancy Strange Telemetry and is approximately 47.6% of research and curatorial project Haunted Machines. He teaches, lectures and exhibits internationally on design, technology, imagination and speculation and is completing a PhD in Design and the Social Construction of AI at Goldsmiths.
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