Fabulation for Design Futuring
- 1-1 ECTS credits
- DP00BA38
Education information
Implementation date
16.06.2025 - 16.06.2025
Education type
Field-specific studies
Alternativity of education
Optional
Location
Enrollment and further information
Bio: Noura Howell, PhD
Howell is a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researcher and trained software developer who builds and evaluates interactive computing technologies. Howell's research includes participatory imagining of AI futures and building prototypes for embodied, emotional sense-making with data. These prototypes work as probes to investigate complex sociocultural and ethical aspects of technology. Through this, Howell's research shows the important roles that emotion, embodiment, and imagination play in meaning-making and innovation with data and AI. Overall, Howell's work offers tactics to help technology developers make data and AI more ethical, inclusive, and supportive of rich sense-making. Howell is currently a fourth-year tenure-track assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in the department of Digital Media, with a courtesy appointment in Interactive Computing. She founded and directs the Future Feelings Lab. Prior to doing a PhD in Information Systems at UC Berkeley, Howell worked as a software developer for Intel Labs and a small music data startup The Echo Nest that was later bought by Spotify.
Education description
Design futuring offers an approach to engaging complex problems. This seminar will overview important different perspectives and approaches to design futuring, and introduce fabulation as an approach to design futuring. Each student will be invited to reflect on their own unique perspective, hopes and fears for alternative futures, and create a fabulation as an exercise in design futuring.