Design that allows the user to adapt the object of the design in some way
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No Obstacles
Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker (2007) - details the origins and history of parkour
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'By operating outside of normative design contexts, this enquiry is free from the demands of industry and the market forces that inform the majority of technological trajectories. This freedom facilitates a shift away from familiar notions, established lineages and contextual expectations to reimagine things and worlds inspired by different ideologies or motivations.’ (P21)
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Living with Robots: A Speculative Design Approach
James Auger, 2014 - Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2014: 20-42
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Roof Culture Asia
Storror - parkour video
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Charles Eames' definition of design
'a plan for arranging elements to accomplish a particular purpose'
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Speculative Design
Design which isn't bound by markets, and thus doesn't have a defined 'purpose'
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Baudrillard - how advertising demands categories of objects
How this defines categories of people, 'tyrannical' in nature
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Parkour - Storror
Example of how objects never have one defined use, and how keeping objects defined to one use is a task of authority, and requires constant upkeep and work
