Tonya Nguyen on A World-Building Activity for Values Advocacy
BCNM's Tonya Nguyen recently co-wrote a paper with Richmond Wong on "Timelines," a useful design and technology activity.
From the abstract:
This paper presents Timelines, a design activity to assist values advocates: people who help others recognize values and ethical concerns as relevant to technical practice. Rather than integrate seamlessly into existing design processes, Timelines aims to create a space for critical reflection and contestation among expert participants (such as technology researchers, practitioners, or students) and a values advocate facilitator to surface the importance and relevance of values and ethical concerns. The activity's design is motivated by theoretical perspectives from design fiction, scenario planning, and value sensitive design.
Read the paper here!