Designing at the End of the World
Jonas Fritsch, Daria Loi, Ann Light · 2019
We are living in a time of ecological and humanitarian crisis that requires imminent action from the joint fields of HCI and interaction design. In a very palpable way, we seem to be moving towards the "end of the world" (certainly, as we have known it). This workshop addresses three concrete end-of-world challenges - the end of nature, end of culture and end of the human - to contribute to a much-needed design research agenda and to build community in the process. The workshop will explore how the design of technology can support a fairer and more secure set of futures by considering these three end-states and what we, as participants (both contributing to futures and living with the outcomes), can offer to improve the options. Contributions to theory and practice will be welcome.