Expanding Historical Approaches to Speculative Design
Expanding Historical Approaches to Speculative Design
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DIS2025 Workshop, July 6th, Madeira
This workshop expands historical approaches in HCI and design research, with a particular focus on speculative design. We aim to bring together researchers with diverse orientations and practices to open discussions about historicism and how historical approaches and methods can be applied to critical and speculative design, fostering reflexivity in design practice.
Through hands-on activities, we will explore various approaches drawn from the humanities, social sciences, and design studies. The workshop activity topic will revolve around three themes that we believe can be productive for historicizing speculative design: rupture and continuity, figure-ground reversal, and the present as past or future. To that end, we will synthesize insights to develop a research agenda that identifies key topics and possible directions for expanding historical approaches to speculative design and outline a set of design strategies that integrate these theoretical concepts into practice.
Call for Participation
Call for Participation
Interested participants are invited to submit a 1–3 page position paper in the ACM Extended Abstracts Format (references not included in the page limit) outlining their research background and interest in the workshop’s focus. Submissions should be sent to sjang310@gatech.edu by July 1, 2025. We also welcome alternative formats, such as artworks, demos, videos, or pictorials.
The workshop organizers will review the submissions. As this workshop will be conducted in person, we plan to keep this workshop relatively small. If we receive more applications than that, our main criteria for selection will be the person’s fit with the workshop theme.
Accepted position papers will be posted on this website. At least one author of each accepted position paper must attend the full-day workshop in person or virtually.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: July 1, 2025
- Notification of accepted submissions: July 2, 2025
- Notification of workshop schedule: July 2, 2025
- Workshop date: July 6, 2025 (@room "Sidney")
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