Building Target Worlds
Connecting Research, Futures Exploration and Worldbuilding
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5948070 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Markus Rothmüller (Bridgepoint (Germany), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 2021 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 129-158 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings (CONFERENCE) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1559-890X • E-ISSN: 1559-8918 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/epic.12064 |
| OpenAlex | W4200086784 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
This paper introduces a framework called Target Worlds, with which I hope to offer an alternative to putting users, personas or target groups at the center of innovation. Instead I want to promote a more prudent approach that balances social, environmental, technological and financial sustainability in innovation. Target Worlds thereby tries to overcome issues of focus, scalability and responsibility in innovation by tackling the core of the problem: the targets of innovation work. The framework merges concepts of investigating 'worlds' today, identifying desirable futures for tomorrow and worldbuilding as a hands-on approach resulting in target worlds as new point of departure for innovation teams. This paper serves as a recipe for building target worlds offering a step-by-step guide for innovators and anthropologists to follow
Business · Focus (optics · Futures contract · Knowledge management · Open Innovation · Point (geometry · Scalability · Social worlds · Sociology · Sustainability · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
Science in action
Speculative design
Types of Mind and Body
Ethnography in/of the World System
From the Social Shaping of Technology to the Staging of Temporary Spaces of Innovation − A Case of Participatory Innovation
The Anthropology of the Future
Bruno Latour
Anthropologies and Futures
Notes on the theory of the actor-network
Reassembling the Social
Towards Multi-Dimensional Ethnography
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |