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Wordings and Worldings—DALL-E wordplays to visualise alternative metaphors for complex systems

Format: Workshops, RSD11, RSD11: Confronting legacies of oppression, RSD11: Methods and the worlds they make, Topic: Culture & Society, Topic: Methods & Methodology

Palak Dudani

World-ing, the act of imagining, shaping and visualising many worlds, is inextricably connected to the designer’s ability to work with words and language. The workshop builds on our previous RSD papers on languaging futures and the role of metaphors in exploring complex systems and presents a playful experiment using artificial intelligence programmes such as DALL-E and Midjourney. By using specific descriptive language, the participants will explore the relationship between words and visual representations and how alternative metaphorical visualisations could be used as prompts for imagining multiple and pluriversal futures within design.

Keywords: metaphors, systems language, artificial intelligence, pluriversal

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Author(s): Palak Dudani
Year: 2022
Title: Wordings and Worldings—DALL-E wordplays to visualise alternative metaphors for complex systems
Published in: Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design
Volume: RSD11
Article No.: 064
URL: https://rsdsymposium.org/wordings-and-worldings
Host: University of Brighton
Location: Brighton, UK
Symposium Dates: October 3–16, 2022
First published: 30 September 2022
Last update: 30 April 2023
Publisher Identification: ISSN 2371-8404
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