Essays about: "spekulativ design"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words spekulativ design.

  1. 1. muGen : Generative AI as Machinic Exploration of Cultural Archives

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Yan Yu; [2023]
    Keywords : AI art; creative AI; speculative design; text-to-image generation; AI-konst; kreativ AI; spekulativ design; text-till-bild-generering;

    Abstract : In recent years, generative AI has quickly become a new creative and artistic tool that could challenge our understanding of the creative process and the role of the machine. Despite having exhibited visually promising results, images generated by AI tools present various challenges, most notably their tendency to display cultural, gender and racial biases. READ MORE

  3. 2. Reimagining hormone tracking : A feminist exploration of designing an empowering community

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Cateau Oonk; [2023]
    Keywords : Hormone tracking; Women’s health; Community-building; Empowerment; Feminist HCI;

    Abstract : This study explores the possibility of designing an empowering community on a hormone-tracking application. I hereby draw inspiration from the ethos of the radical consciousness-raising groups of the 1970s to move away from the traditional individualistic approach to hormonal health. READ MORE

  4. 3. Imagining the Future of Creative AI Tools : A Cospeculative Workshop

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Emelie Eriksson; [2022]
    Keywords : n-creativity; creativity; creative ai tools; creative tools; creativity support tools; speculative design; co-speculation; co-speculative workshop; n-kreativitet; kreativitet; kreativa ai verktyg; kreativa verktyg; kreativitetsstödjande verktyg; spekulativ design; samspekulation; samspekulativ workshop;

    Abstract : Creative artificial intelligence (AI) is often explored in terms of machine intelligence on a philosophical basis. As a counter-reaction, there have been calls for user-centered creative AI. READ MORE

  5. 4. Plan, visualize, realize : A tool for budgeting and following-up a carbon budget for heads of division at a fly-intensive organization

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Albin Matson Gyllang; [2022]
    Keywords : carbon budget; information visualization; dashboards; academic flying; design; koldioxidbudget; informationsvisualering; dashboards; academic flying; design;

    Abstract : To prevent climate change, the world needs to reduce carbon emissions globally. This also applies to academia, where a large portion of a research-intensive organization’s total emissions comes from flying. At KTH, a research-intensive organization, an ambitious university-wide goal to reduce emissions from academic flying has been established. READ MORE

  6. 5. A voice of water : An exploration of storytelling and co-created speculative design to approach a representation of water in the urban development of Slussen, Stockholm

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Melissa van Gerwen; [2021]
    Keywords : Storytelling; co-created speculative design; future images; coproduction; nonhumans; critical utopianism; ecocentrism; Slussen; water;

    Abstract : The current communicative planning paradigm appears to lack the ability to include the voices of the voiceless and is stuck in practices that continue to confirm the status-quo through technocratic quick fixes, which do not solve underlying problems causing climate change. This thesis is an exploration of how two unconventional methods, storytelling and co-created speculative design, can contribute to a change in paradigm, specifically improve the inclusiveness of coproduction, where nonhumans are involved in the decision-making processes. READ MORE