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SF Critical Design & Speculative Futures 060315 # SFCDSF
SF Critical Design & Speculative Futures
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#SFCDSF
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Why Another Design Meetup? Platform for Conversation Explore Methods Talk About Cool Projects
Future Content Speakers Workshops Student Work
What will we be talking about? Speculative Design Critical Design Design Fiction All of the above.
Speculative Design is …a bending of the way we think about the world and how design sits into it.
…designing for alternate futures.
The Futures Cone
The Futures Cone
Signals
What will we be talking about? Speculative Design Critical Design. Design Fiction
“let's call it critical design, that questions the cultural, social and ethical implications of emerging technologies.
A form of design that can help us to define the most desirable futures, and avoid the least desirable.”
- Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby
What if? What could happen? How about… What would it be like?
According to the UN, we need to produce 70% more food in the next 40 years.
Designs for an Overpopulated Planet: Foragers Dunne & Raby
The Grey Rush David BenjaminSoo-in Yang
Famine.
Republic of Salivation Burton Nitta
The Abandoned Robot Buton Nitta
How will we treat the end of the lives of future living and thinking products?
If this is a future, then what other scenarios exist around the ethical treatment of AI as objects…as organisms?
Ex Machina
Fly Me to the Moon aka Dinner with friends Swift financial transactions
Intel's design fiction on the future of education
Speculative Design a way of thinking that frees your creative compass.
Synthesis.
Synthesis of ideas.
Synthesis of worlds.
Synthesis of futures.
Synthesis of potential futures.
