2979 2022 eng 81 110 51 article Rom Universität Tor Vergata 1 2023-01-25 -- -- With design having more impact than ever, there is an increased need for critical inquiries into design research and education that engage designers to question established disciplinary assumptions. One prevailing myth is the convenience ideal: the obsession with comfort, efficiency, smoothness, and smartness that relates to a trend of envisioning super-convenient futures. By combining iterative prototyping, anti-solutionist strategies, and tactics of critical and speculative design, we built a counter-approach to conventional design processes: Inconvenient Design. With convenience as the topic for debate, we explored its potential in the course Stranger Things–Prototyping Inconvenience. This paper provides an overview of the approach and course format, using examples of student projects to illustrate how it encouraged them to reflect and debate directly in the design process in a tangible way, enabling them to craft alternatives. Lastly, we discuss the opportunities our methodological approach can bring to design research and education. Interaction Design and Architecture(s) : IxD&A 10.55612/s-5002-051-004 1826-9745 2023-01-25T13:46:58+00:00 sword hisres Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International Jordi Tost Paula Schuster Frank Heidmann deu swd Prototyping deu swd Provokation deu swd Design deu swd Forschung Zeichnung, angewandte Kunst FB4 Design Inst. für angewandte Forschung Urbane Zukunft (IaF) Import Diamond Open Access Fachhochschule Potsdam