Feeling the Heat: Uncomfortable Design Fictions for Alternative Forms of Summer Comfort

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Samenvatting

Ironically, global warming is leading to increased demand for artificial space cooling, which in turn fuels greenhouse gas emissions. In this pictorial, we present a set of deliberately uncomfortable design fictions aimed at disrupting this harmful cycle and opening new design spaces for alternative forms of summer comfort. Through the fictions, we argue how designers’ assumptions about comfort play a role in steering responses to global warming in narrow, resource-intensive and exclusionary directions. In our discussion, we increase the heat by reflecting on the role of assumed users in fueling resource intensive lifestyles, and challenge designers to consider users that are affluent but nonetheless willing and able to invest effort and change their expectations in the face of current global crises. We close with a visual provocation that links designing low effort technological solutions to the breeding practices of the cuckoo.
Originele taal-2Engels
TitelTEI '24: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
UitgeverijAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pagina's1-15
Aantal pagina's15
ISBN van geprinte versie979-8-4007-0402-4
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - 11 feb. 2024
EvenementTangible and Embodied Interaction - Ireland, Cork
Duur: 11 feb. 202415 feb. 2024
Congresnummer: 18

Publicatie series

NaamACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Congres

CongresTangible and Embodied Interaction
Verkorte titelTEI'24
StadCork
Periode11/02/2415/02/24

Financiering

We want to thank all the students and stakeholders involved in creating the design fictions, and our colleagues for friendly reviews, in particular Stephan Wensveen, Dan Lockton and Doenja Oogjes. Ethics approval was obtained from the TU Eindhoven Ethics Board under reference number ERB2020ID63 (collective application for ‘Generative Sessions with Design Students and Staff’) and specific modification ERB2021ID27 and included permission to use images created for publications. The research presented in this pictorial was funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) under grant number VENI17343.

FinanciersFinanciernummer
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk OnderzoekVENI17343

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