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PAPERS: Counter design: Changing perspectives in design action Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Session Chair: Yekta Bakırlıoğlu, Lancaster University Session Chair: Claudia Garduño García, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana | |
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Designing Archipelagic AI: Challenging the coloniality of AI through speculative metaphors 1: ITI/LARSyS, IST - University of Lisbon, Portugal; 2: Umeå University, Sweden Metaphors play a crucial role in how designers understand, communicate, and shape technology, and artificial intelligence (AI) is no exception. This paper introduces Archipelagic AI (AAI), a speculative framework that employs metaphor-making as a design research strategy to challenge the colonial epistemologies that structure AI systems. Developed through collaborative autoethnography and fabulation in one of Europe’s richer ecosystems (Samouco in the Tagus Estuary), AAI draws on archipelagic studies and Caribbean decolonial thought to foreground a geosocial intelligence emerging through relational nodes of situated knowledge, where matter, forces, currents, and affects interweave in fluid assemblages. Structured around three metaphorical figures — AI as Contact Zone, AI as Composting, and AI as Companion — AAI proposes design practices oriented toward coexistence, care, and ecological justice. The paper contributes to speculative, place-based, and community-oriented design research by articulating methodologies that integrate more-than-human perspectives into AI design. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.2205
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