Co-designing alternative narratives for decentralised digital futures with rural communities in Karnataka, India
Decentralising Digital was a 2 year project involving design researchers from universities across the UK, Quicksand – a design research studio from India, and a range of community partners working with rural farmers and communities in Karnataka, India. The project, focused on co-create future alternative narratives that explore how powerful developments in emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, the voice enabled Internet, machine learning and artificial intelligence might be harnessed to support rural communities in India. We wanted to challenge existing narratives of emerging technologies where often the design and manufacturing process are disjointed from the people using them.
Keywords
Research Project, Sustainable Futures, Tangible Computing, Human Computer Interaction, Speculative Design
Staff
[Loraine Clarke]{lec24}