Importance of Speculation in Design Research

Ron Wakkary is a professor in design in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University in Canada and a professor and Chair of Design for More Than Human-Centered Worlds in the Future Everyday Cluster in Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He founded the SFU Everyday Design Studio. Wakkary holds a BFA in Visual Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada, an MFA in Visual Arts from the State University of New York, USA, and an Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from the University of Plymouth, UK. His research interests revolve around the changing nature of design and HCI in relation to evolving understandings of human–technology relations and posthumanism.Doenja Oogjes is a design researcher in Human-Computer Interaction. She is an assistant professor at the Department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands. Oogjes earned her Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada, and holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Industrial Design from the University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She is interested in indirect, accidental, surprising, and overlooked ways designed things mediate the every day, informed by feminist posthumanism.

• Why Speculate?.- Continuous Future.- Continuous Present.- Continuous Pasts.- The Practice of Speculative Reasoning.- Conclusion.