Design for Hope: Cultivating Deliberate Hope in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges
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2025
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| author | Kim, JaeWon Liu, Jiaying "Lizzy" Popowski, Lindsay Pyle, Cassidy Arif, Ahmer Hayes, Gillian R. Hiniker, Alexis Ju, Wendy Mueller, Florian "Floyd" Shen, Hua Somanath, Sowmya Fiesler, Casey Kotturi, Yasmine |
| author_facet | Kim, JaeWon Liu, Jiaying "Lizzy" Popowski, Lindsay Pyle, Cassidy Arif, Ahmer Hayes, Gillian R. Hiniker, Alexis Ju, Wendy Mueller, Florian "Floyd" Shen, Hua Somanath, Sowmya Fiesler, Casey Kotturi, Yasmine |
| contents | Design has the potential to cultivate hope in the face of complex societal challenges. These challenges are often addressed through efforts aimed at harm reduction and prevention -- essential but sometimes limiting approaches that can unintentionally narrow our collective sense of what is possible. This one-day, in-person workshop builds on the first Positech Workshop at CSCW 2024 by offering practical ways to move beyond reactive problem-solving toward building capacity for proactive goal setting and generating pathways forward. We explore how collaborative and reflective design methodologies can help research communities navigate uncertainty, expand possibilities, and foster meaningful change. By connecting design thinking with hope theory, which frames hope as the interplay of ``goal-directed,'' ``pathways,'' and ``agentic'' thinking, we will examine how researchers might chart new directions in the face of complexity and constraint. Through hands-on activities including problem reframing, building a shared taxonomy of design methods that align with hope theory, and reflecting on what it means to sustain hopeful research trajectories, participants will develop strategies to embed a deliberately hopeful approach into their research. |
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| spellingShingle | Design for Hope: Cultivating Deliberate Hope in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges Kim, JaeWon Liu, Jiaying "Lizzy" Popowski, Lindsay Pyle, Cassidy Arif, Ahmer Hayes, Gillian R. Hiniker, Alexis Ju, Wendy Mueller, Florian "Floyd" Shen, Hua Somanath, Sowmya Fiesler, Casey Kotturi, Yasmine Human-Computer Interaction Design has the potential to cultivate hope in the face of complex societal challenges. These challenges are often addressed through efforts aimed at harm reduction and prevention -- essential but sometimes limiting approaches that can unintentionally narrow our collective sense of what is possible. This one-day, in-person workshop builds on the first Positech Workshop at CSCW 2024 by offering practical ways to move beyond reactive problem-solving toward building capacity for proactive goal setting and generating pathways forward. We explore how collaborative and reflective design methodologies can help research communities navigate uncertainty, expand possibilities, and foster meaningful change. By connecting design thinking with hope theory, which frames hope as the interplay of ``goal-directed,'' ``pathways,'' and ``agentic'' thinking, we will examine how researchers might chart new directions in the face of complexity and constraint. Through hands-on activities including problem reframing, building a shared taxonomy of design methods that align with hope theory, and reflecting on what it means to sustain hopeful research trajectories, participants will develop strategies to embed a deliberately hopeful approach into their research. |
| title | Design for Hope: Cultivating Deliberate Hope in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07586 |