Chapter 21 Co-making and Prototyping Community Housing Futures
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Alejandro Veliz Reyes
, Alexandra Carr und Tim Crabtree
Abstract
An emerging area of research on automated futures is that of digital equity- how to innovate and develop digital products, services, and experiences which promote equality of access, and align with the lived experiences of communities they are expected to benefit. In this chapter, we outline a research project focused on the adoption of digital fabrication technologies by a rural community in Bridport, United Kingdom. Their challenge is that of housing futures not only in terms of stock demand, but more broadly in terms of sustainable forms of housing construction (i.e., modern methods of construction) using local materials and skills. The chapter navigates a complex set of interrelations between issues of land and place, skills, material flows, and technologies. After expectations are unmet by government top-down growth and industrial strategies, we frame collective design practices of prototyping and making as a way to exchange, prompt, and visualise housing futures through our Living Lab in Denhay Farm-a space for testing out housing building elements, material opportunities, and early local material supply chains. Through a place-based approach contextualised by marginalised rural and coastal communities, we reflect and introduce expressions of technology adoption and co-production as vehicles to potentially address specific problems of housing procurement and construction, and more broadly as mechanisms to facilitate inclusion, access, knowledge mobilisation, and research impact.
Abstract
An emerging area of research on automated futures is that of digital equity- how to innovate and develop digital products, services, and experiences which promote equality of access, and align with the lived experiences of communities they are expected to benefit. In this chapter, we outline a research project focused on the adoption of digital fabrication technologies by a rural community in Bridport, United Kingdom. Their challenge is that of housing futures not only in terms of stock demand, but more broadly in terms of sustainable forms of housing construction (i.e., modern methods of construction) using local materials and skills. The chapter navigates a complex set of interrelations between issues of land and place, skills, material flows, and technologies. After expectations are unmet by government top-down growth and industrial strategies, we frame collective design practices of prototyping and making as a way to exchange, prompt, and visualise housing futures through our Living Lab in Denhay Farm-a space for testing out housing building elements, material opportunities, and early local material supply chains. Through a place-based approach contextualised by marginalised rural and coastal communities, we reflect and introduce expressions of technology adoption and co-production as vehicles to potentially address specific problems of housing procurement and construction, and more broadly as mechanisms to facilitate inclusion, access, knowledge mobilisation, and research impact.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- List of Figures IX
- List of Tables XI
- Chapter 1 Navigating Automated Futures: A Framework for Playing and Learning with Imaginaries, Interactions, and Impact 1
- Chapter 2 Automation and Futures: Doing Social Science Forward 19
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Part 1: Imaginaries
- Chapter 3 Peter’s Problem. An Analysis of the Imaginaries about Automated Futures Portrayed in QualityLand 37
- Chapter 4 ‘Where are my robots, Mija?!’ A Situated Review of Technological Change Narratives in Latin America 55
- Chapter 5 The Possible Futures of Automated Public Space 73
- Chapter 6 Small Automation: Thinking Through the Texture of Automated Systems 89
- Chapter 7 The House as a Machine for Living: Dreams of Domestic Automation, 1923–2023 105
- Chapter 8 Necrorobotics. The Ethics of Resurrecting the Dead 121
- Chapter 9 Unveiling Ambiguity: Dilemmas of Automation in Medical Imaging 139
- Chapter 10 Algorithmic Europe: Narratives of Risks and Benefits of Public–Private Interaction in Public Sector AI 157
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Part 2: Interactions
- Chapter 11 Algorithmic Agency, Automated Content, and User Engagement on TikTok 175
- Chapter 12 Garbage In, Garbage Out: Predictive Policing and Structural Biases in Automated Criminal Justice Techniques 191
- Chapter 13 Sound Automation: Some Provisional Lessons from Electronic Music 207
- Chapter 14 Collaborative Future-Making: Bridging the Everyday and the Global Political Economy of Automated Health 223
- Chapter 15 Pursuing the Promises of Personalisation: Fetish and Friction in Futures of Automated News 239
- Chapter 16 Beyond Human Oversight—Quality Management as a Tool to Control Automated Decision-Making Systems 255
- Chapter 17 Beware of ‘Bossware’: The Role of Communities for Gig Workers Dealing with Algorithmic Management 271
- Chapter 18 Silicon Valley’s Frictionless Future: The Design Philosophy of Frictionlessness 287
- Chapter 19 Automated Afterlives 303
- Chapter 20 Wuthering Weights—Localisation Trajectories of Machine Learning Models for Local Ends 321
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Part 3: Impacts
- Chapter 21 Co-making and Prototyping Community Housing Futures 339
- Chapter 22 Exploring Automated Futures through Game-making 359
- Chapter 23 Soothing the Socio-Ethical Unease: Trolley Problems in the Age of Automated Decision-Making 379
- Chapter 24 Arts-Based and Sensory Methods to Imagine More-than-Human Automated Futures 395
- Chapter 25 Sustainable Automated Futures: Participatory Human Approaches to Urban Mobility 413
- Chapter 26 People on the Road: From Automated Mobility to Autonomous Human Actors through a People-Centred Approach 435
- Author Biographies 453
- Index 459
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- List of Figures IX
- List of Tables XI
- Chapter 1 Navigating Automated Futures: A Framework for Playing and Learning with Imaginaries, Interactions, and Impact 1
- Chapter 2 Automation and Futures: Doing Social Science Forward 19
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Part 1: Imaginaries
- Chapter 3 Peter’s Problem. An Analysis of the Imaginaries about Automated Futures Portrayed in QualityLand 37
- Chapter 4 ‘Where are my robots, Mija?!’ A Situated Review of Technological Change Narratives in Latin America 55
- Chapter 5 The Possible Futures of Automated Public Space 73
- Chapter 6 Small Automation: Thinking Through the Texture of Automated Systems 89
- Chapter 7 The House as a Machine for Living: Dreams of Domestic Automation, 1923–2023 105
- Chapter 8 Necrorobotics. The Ethics of Resurrecting the Dead 121
- Chapter 9 Unveiling Ambiguity: Dilemmas of Automation in Medical Imaging 139
- Chapter 10 Algorithmic Europe: Narratives of Risks and Benefits of Public–Private Interaction in Public Sector AI 157
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Part 2: Interactions
- Chapter 11 Algorithmic Agency, Automated Content, and User Engagement on TikTok 175
- Chapter 12 Garbage In, Garbage Out: Predictive Policing and Structural Biases in Automated Criminal Justice Techniques 191
- Chapter 13 Sound Automation: Some Provisional Lessons from Electronic Music 207
- Chapter 14 Collaborative Future-Making: Bridging the Everyday and the Global Political Economy of Automated Health 223
- Chapter 15 Pursuing the Promises of Personalisation: Fetish and Friction in Futures of Automated News 239
- Chapter 16 Beyond Human Oversight—Quality Management as a Tool to Control Automated Decision-Making Systems 255
- Chapter 17 Beware of ‘Bossware’: The Role of Communities for Gig Workers Dealing with Algorithmic Management 271
- Chapter 18 Silicon Valley’s Frictionless Future: The Design Philosophy of Frictionlessness 287
- Chapter 19 Automated Afterlives 303
- Chapter 20 Wuthering Weights—Localisation Trajectories of Machine Learning Models for Local Ends 321
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Part 3: Impacts
- Chapter 21 Co-making and Prototyping Community Housing Futures 339
- Chapter 22 Exploring Automated Futures through Game-making 359
- Chapter 23 Soothing the Socio-Ethical Unease: Trolley Problems in the Age of Automated Decision-Making 379
- Chapter 24 Arts-Based and Sensory Methods to Imagine More-than-Human Automated Futures 395
- Chapter 25 Sustainable Automated Futures: Participatory Human Approaches to Urban Mobility 413
- Chapter 26 People on the Road: From Automated Mobility to Autonomous Human Actors through a People-Centred Approach 435
- Author Biographies 453
- Index 459