Provoking Futures of Care : Codesign and Artificial Intelligence with Older People

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46516/inmaterial.v9.199

Keywords:

Care Futures, Seniors, Artificial intelligence, Co-design Methodologies, technodiversity

Abstract

This article analyzes the results of an experimental investigation that explores how artificial intelligence (AI) image generators can be integrated into the care of older adults, based on a methodological prototype that generates visualizations based on their discourses. Based on a speculative and co-design approach, we worked with the experiences, connections and lives of older people, normally excluded from technological innovations, challenging the traditional and assistance basted representations of care. This critical prototype that questions techno-optimism and the predominant visions of youth-centered design, proposes a more inclusive and sensitive perspective that reflects the diversity of worldviews and aspirations of this demographic group. In dialogue with the debates that advocate for a plurality in the ways of conceiving technologies, this article emphasizes the importance of creating spaces of intervention and speculation to integrate the voices of the elderly in the design of healing technologies, offering a critique of a single technological development and its impact on Latin American society. 

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Author Biographies

Jesús Ponce, The New Centre for Research and Practice (Jersey City, EEUU)

Jesús Ponce is a writer and researcher focused on the transdisciplinary dimensions of the arts, with a particular interest in the intersections between literature, design, and contemporary criticism. His work examines the aesthetics and politics involved in knowledge construction through new narratives and posthuman realisms. His latest research, which centers on plant thinking and design, inspired his experimental novel Vivero. Instalaciones sobre el ritmo, lo senil y lo vegetal, which was awarded the 2022 National Literary Prize for Best Unpublished Novel by the Government of Chile. He currently resides in Madrid, where he continues to develop his work and academic exploration. 

Martín Tironi, School of Design, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Martín Tironi is the director and academic at the School of Design (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), as well as at the Núcleo Milenio FAIR Futures of Artificial Intelligence Research. He holds a degree in Sociology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, a Master's degree from Paris Descartes, a PhD from the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation (CSI) at the Mines Paris School of Engineering, and a Post-Doctorate from the same research centre. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Invention and Social Process at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is an associate researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS). Along with the curatorial team, composed of Marcos Chilet, Pablo Hermansen, and Carola Ureta, he received a medal at the London Design Biennale (2021) for the pavilion titled Tectonic Ressonances: From users-centered design to planet-oriented design. 

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2024-12-20

How to Cite

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Ponce, J. and Tironi, M. 2024. Provoking Futures of Care : Codesign and Artificial Intelligence with Older People. INMATERIAL. Diseño, Arte y Sociedad. 9, 18 (Dec. 2024), 39–70 p. DOI:https://doi.org/10.46516/inmaterial.v9.199.