The document discusses design fiction as a method of world building, focusing on how it creates plausible futures through the construction of fictional artifacts. It explores the interplay between these artifacts and the designs that define the constructed worlds, suggesting that they serve as both prototypes of the future and reflections of reality. Ultimately, it highlights design fiction's potential to engage with and critique emerging technologies and societal constructs.

1. Design Fiction as World Building
Paul Coulton, Joe Lindley, Mirriam Sturdee, and Mike Stead
@ProfTriviality

2. Situating Design Fiction
Present
Futures
Domestication
Emerging
Technology
Design Fictions
Vapour Worlds
Past
Design Fictions
Vapourware and Vapourworlds
Alternate Presents
or Lost Futures
Near Futures
Far Futures
HT James Auger

3. Plurality of Futures
Present
Future
Time
Plausible
Possible
Past
Plausible
Possible
Point of Focus
Includes History, Reality, and Fiction

4. Design Fiction as World Building
Design Fiction World

5. Design Fiction as World Building
entry points
differing scales

7. Redesigning legislation

8. GoD Infrastructure

9. GoD Infrastructure

10. Out of sight

11. Game of Drones World
Landing Stations
Signage
Drone Video
Legislation

12. How to build a Voight-Kampff machine

13. Voight-Kampff World

14. World Building

15. Plausible?

16. Engaging?

17. Voight-Kampff World
3D Model
Comic Strip
Empathy SDK

18. Conclusions
Design Fictions are collections of artefacts, that,
when viewed together build a fictional world.
The artificially built world is a prototyping
platform for the very designs that define it,
meanwhile those designs reciprocate in kind
and prototype the world.
This is Design Fiction as world building.