FWIW, you could classify this as "Interrogative Design," a practice accelerated by Krzysztof Wodiczko, who lived under communist oppression in Poland, but now h

FWIW, you could classify this as "Interrogative Design," a practice accelerated by Krzysztof Wodiczko, who lived under communist oppression in Poland, but now has had cushy positions at MIT and Harvard [1 ] He focuses a lot on projections now, but in the past and his students have, made lots of "fake devices" or in Chris Csiksmihalyi's practice "edgy products" which typically misfunction in order to start conversations or get us to see things outside our usual waking trance. In a way, they're like small hacks that hackers do which invert or reveal power relationships.... (the big difference is these art projects don't usually always actually work -not that they really have to though, but if it often creates confusion and/or animosity from real hackers). Anyway, there are lots of great pieces in this category, see [2] and there are many more. Protip: Once you start to see things through this lens, you'll realize that so many other actual projects have unintentional profiles as Interrogative Designs [ 1 ]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Wodiczko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Wodiczko [ 2 ] http://www.interrogative.org/projects/ http://www.interrogative.org/projects/