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Aspirations-based design

Abstract:

We present a case for aspirations-based design by drawing on a qualitative inquiry into the lives of young girls in rural West Bengal (India). These girls form a particularly vulnerable population, coming from an area known to be susceptible to sex trafcking and crimes against women. We leverage our fndings to engage with Kentaro Toyama's call for greater attention to aspirations in designing technology for development [51]. We highlight the aspirations of and for these girls and reffect on the embedded, temporal, and mutable qualities of these aspirations. Finally, we examine how an aspirations-based design approach might factor these qualities into technology design. Although our analysis draws on empirical fndings from rural/suburban India, the insights derived from this research are relevant for the process of designing technologies towards fulfllment of aspirations, more generally.