Paper Info
Title
Participatory Design Fiction: Community Storytelling for Speculative Urban Technologies.
Abstract
This video was produced as part of the participatory speculative design project "Sankofa City." The project engages community residents to design emerging technologies (e.g. augmented reality, ubicomp, and self-driving cars) tied to their cultural practices. This collaboration is based in the African-American neighborhood of Leimert Park, in South Los Angeles. With increasing urban development in the area, residents are concerned about cultural displacement. In this twelve-week workshop series, local residents worked with university students (Figure 1) to design and plan their neighborhood's future. Groups began by brainstorming high-level concepts through "what if" hypothetical questions. Then they created prototypes and scenarios based on their user personas, which were inspired by local residents. Lastly, they created seven collages (Figure 2) and a design fiction video to share at a local stakeholders' meeting, in order to gather larger community feedback. The video portrays an ARenabled self-driving shuttle that dynamically displays local history. The video was particularly effective for gaining community buy-in and has since been shown at a number of local events and festivals. By grounding speculative designs in a community context, students and residents imagined novel technologies that support Leimert Park's local economy and project their cultural heritage into the unknown future.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
CHI Extended Abstracts
Storytelling,Media studies,Participatory design,Cultural heritage,Computer science,Design fiction,Persona,Local history,Urban planning,Citizen journalism,Multimedia
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-5621-3
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Karl Baumann1142.68
Ben Caldwell2142.06
François Bar31168.14
benjamin stokes4143.35