Visions of the road ahead: Experimenting with the future of self-driving cars
Vision is central to the future of autonomous vehicles (AVs). To accurately see and sense the road and its environment is arguably the principal challenge for engineers, designers, and computer scientists tasked with bringing the dream of self-driving cars and other AVs to life. For companies like Google and Tesla, crafting corporate and promotional visions is key to the acceptance and adoption of new and emerging technologies. But who gets to envision our futures? And how can we have our say in who gets to come along for the ride?
Join the Emerging Technologies Research Lab in this hands-on creative workshop where participants will have the chance to engage and experiment with different visions of the future for AVs in Australia. From the corporate visions put forward by by Big Tech companies, to the speculative visions imagined in sci-fi and popular culture, participants will have the opportunity to interrogate and dissect the social, cultural, and political aspects of these proposed futures. As a participant, you’ll cut apart and piece together using collage methods your own visions for automated mobilities in Australia.
This event is part of a research project titled Future Automated Mobilities, supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence onAutomated Decision-Making & Society.
Presenters
Dr Thao Phan is a Research Fellow at theEmerging Technologies Research Laband the ARC Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making & Society. She is a feminist technoscience researcher who specialises in the study of gender and race in algorithmic culture
艾玛·奎尔蒂是一个博士后,蒙纳sh University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, working within the Emerging Technologies Lab under the Direction of Professor Sarah Pink.
Jeni Lee has fifteen years of experience collaborating with diverse community groups, organisations, activists, artists and academics to produce people-centred documentary films. Her work bridges documentary filmmaking and communication for social change, exploring how communication processes and products can perform multiple roles as research, observation, education, inspiring behaviour change, evaluation and advocating for structural change. She is particularly interested in promoting positive gender norms, diversity and climate justice through communication practice.
Sarah Pink(PhD., FASSA) is Professor and Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University. She is an expert in automation and digital and emerging technologies, working across areas including future mobilities, health, homes and organisations. Sarah is known globally for her leadership in futures anthropology and design anthropology, her methodological innovation in visual, sensory digital and qualitative futures research, and her expertise in combining theoretical scholarship with intervention in interdisciplinary and stakeholder projects.
This event is part ofMelbourne Design Week 2022, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the NGV.
Event Details
- Date:
- 19 March 2022 at 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
- Venue:
- ACMI Swinburne Studio
- Categories:
- design; research; emerging-technologies
Description
Vision is central to the future of autonomous vehicles (AVs). To accurately see and sense the road and its environment is arguably the principal challenge for engineers, designers, and computer scientists tasked with bringing the dream of self-driving cars and other AVs to life. For companies like Google and Tesla, crafting corporate and promotional visions is key to the acceptance and adoption of new and emerging technologies. But who gets to envision our futures? And how can we have our say in who gets to come along for the ride?
Join the Emerging Technologies Research Lab in this hands-on creative workshop where participants will have the chance to engage and experiment with different visions of the future for AVs in Australia. From the corporate visions put forward by by Big Tech companies, to the speculative visions imagined in sci-fi and popular culture, participants will have the opportunity to interrogate and dissect the social, cultural, and political aspects of these proposed futures. As a participant, you’ll cut apart and piece together using collage methods your own visions for automated mobilities in Australia.
This event is part of a research project titled Future Automated Mobilities, supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence onAutomated Decision-Making & Society.
Presenters
Dr Thao Phan is a Research Fellow at theEmerging Technologies Research Laband the ARC Centre of Excellence on Automated Decision-Making & Society. She is a feminist technoscience researcher who specialises in the study of gender and race in algorithmic culture
艾玛·奎尔蒂是一个博士后,蒙纳sh University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, working within the Emerging Technologies Lab under the Direction of Professor Sarah Pink.
Jeni Lee has fifteen years of experience collaborating with diverse community groups, organisations, activists, artists and academics to produce people-centred documentary films. Her work bridges documentary filmmaking and communication for social change, exploring how communication processes and products can perform multiple roles as research, observation, education, inspiring behaviour change, evaluation and advocating for structural change. She is particularly interested in promoting positive gender norms, diversity and climate justice through communication practice.
Sarah Pink(PhD., FASSA) is Professor and Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University. She is an expert in automation and digital and emerging technologies, working across areas including future mobilities, health, homes and organisations. Sarah is known globally for her leadership in futures anthropology and design anthropology, her methodological innovation in visual, sensory digital and qualitative futures research, and her expertise in combining theoretical scholarship with intervention in interdisciplinary and stakeholder projects.
This event is part ofMelbourne Design Week 2022, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the NGV.