DXT—Digital Experience Theatre: Exploring Post-Humanist Digital Product Design Through AI and Speculative Imagery

Gorgel Pinto, António and Pinto, Paula Reaes (2024) DXT—Digital Experience Theatre: Exploring Post-Humanist Digital Product Design Through AI and Speculative Imagery. In: P/References of Design. Cumulus conference proceedings series, 1 . Cumulus Association, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Budapest, pp. 1251-1253. ISBN 978-952-7549-03-5

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Abstract

The Digital Experience Theatre (DXT) is metaphorically characterised as a rubber band ideation tool, stretching from dystopias to micro-utopias. The ideation tool is supported by a website (https://dxt.cargo. site/) with resources for the DXT workshop focusing on developing post-humanist UX/UI design concepts. The tool is characterised by a step-by-step method inspired by Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) (Boal 2019), which, in turn, is influenced by Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire 2014). Freire's pedagogical proposal can be summarised as a process of critical awareness of a social reality that allows the subject to intervene in it and, ultimately, their emancipation from relations of oppression. Boal also developed his methodology based on the desire to contribute to resolving social and political problems and thought of theatre as a tool available to everyone to develop strategies to escape oppressive relationships. Within the DXT workshop, participants, who are also users of digital products, are regarded as vulnerable human beings who must contend with many useless and redundant solutions that place them in similar oppressive situations. The DXT, adopting the TO methodology, seeks to develop innovative solutions to represent a new post-humanist design paradigm (Wakkary 2021). An ideation tool with the capacity to operate with creatives in digital technologies to contribute to the transformation of unsustainable realities by promoting the creation of digital products that are simultaneously community-based and humanity-centred (Norman 2023).

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