March 17, 2024 — lectures Week 1

Text // Reconstituting the Utopian Vision of Making:

HCI After Technosolutionism

The text is interesting in several ways. First, the critique of making makes a lot of sense. As an interactive design student, I am directly concerned with this topic. By building our own technological tools, we feel more responsible for our consumption and gain a better understanding of the technologies we use. However, inequalities persist: access to components and education remains a privilege, even when we take a DIY approach.

Technosolutionism finds a very interesting echo in the 2004 lecture by André Comte-Sponville, a contemporary French philosopher, titled Is Capitalism Moral?. In this text, he describes four orders that govern society and should not be confused: the technico-scientific and economic order, the juridico-political order, the moral order, and the ethical order. The critique of technosolutionism is based precisely on a confusion between these orders. Technology belongs to the first order and should be limited to showing what is possible and what is not. It should not claim to solve societal problems, as these issues fall under the juridico-political or moral order.

( I used chat GPT to help me for the grammar and the translation from french to english)

Graphic interface (GUI)

The GUI was a lot develop by the research financed by the army
NO CODE plug in : like Grasshopper ( parametric design) in architecture for 3D render

Link with TouchDesigner, a visual code software were we use also nodes

Design Biased

Huge problem in the intregration of the women gender in the design

AC in the buisness offices / they set to be connivente for men only
the car crashtests were only tested with male body replication
Toilet are the same size as the one for the men but they don’t need the same time
heart attack studies

Social & Ethical Design

Persuasive design = Behavioral influence through interface design (cookies, newsletters, notifications).