TY - CONF A1 - Tost, Jordi A1 - Schuster, Paula A1 - Heidmann, Frank T1 - “Stranger Things - Prototyping Inconvenience” N2 - There is a prevalent obsession in design-oriented disciplines and in the technological industry with comfort, efficiency, smoothness and smartness, which relates to a trend of envisioning super-convenient futures. In this paper, we raise convenience as a topic for inquiry within critical design practice and affirm the importance of questioning the broad implications of “design for convenience” in design research and design education. To this end, we investigate the potential of Inconvenient Design as a discursive and critical approach. By combining prototyping with tactics of critical and speculative design, we build a methodology that aims to push designers beyond their “comfortable human perspective”, engaging them to question current practices in design and to think about alternatives. This methodology was the starting point of “Stranger Things – Prototyping Inconvenience”, a design course held at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. The key insights and reflections from this course are summarized and illustrated through the results of the iterative prototyping sessions as well as the final projects completed by the graduate and undergraduate students. KW - Design KW - Forschung KW - Prototyp KW - Provokation Y1 - 2023 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-fhpotsdam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3024 CY - New York ER -