A Speculative Design Workshop:Does Alexa dream of having period?
Date: June 20, 2023 7-8:30pm
Format: In-person only
Tags: ##speculative design #chatbot #p5speech#cyberferminism
Why do all my virtual assistants have default female voices? What is speculative design? How can we use speculative & critical design as creative tools to incite discussion about complex social issues like such?
In this session, we will
- have a dialogue about how emerging technology embodies and perpetuates existing gender biases, among many other biases, in our society
- Introduce speculative design and critical design with examples from various artists
- As a group, we will imagine and prototype an alternative version of Alexa using speculative design, collaging, sketching, junk shelving, and maybe a bit of p5 speech