Measuring and sensing devices play an important role in research across both the medical humanities and geography. This workshop will explore the nature of these devices not as they currently exist, but as they might be—generating ideas for speculative computational products.
The workshop revisits sensing and measurement not as sites of certainty, but as sites of exploration.
Participants will first briefly introduce and reflect on the role measurement and sensing play (or might play) in their own research. This will be followed by a presentation of the Interaction Research Studio's approach to Research through Design. Building on these presentations, participants will join an open discussion to identify shared interests and possibilities for collaboration.
The second half of the workshop will be devoted to an ideation session based on the Studio's methods. Using weather(–health) scenarios as a working example, small groups will use hands-on methods to imagine future scenarios and develop proposals for speculative design artefacts.