FI 2012 - International Workshop on Future Interactions: Using Critical Design Approaches to Explore Urban Data Transactions

The workshop will explore the broad theme of gaining value from data exchange in a near-future urban setting. Through the generation of design scenarios, participants will focus on the possible human-level interactions that will occur during these activities. These interactions will be explored through the creation of lo-fi prototypes, informed by critical design and ethnographic methods. Participants will consider and discuss the merits and potential uses of this kind of approach with a view to the formation of future networks.