Blade Runner Mood Board

Week 1 Reflection

I was looking forward to the class for a long time. My interest in reading novels about what distant future may be holding for us ignited my interest for the material of the class.

I had watched Blade Runner before and had already developed feelings about the setting and…

Week 2 Reflection

Jamais Cascio’s critiques were the main material of this weeks class. Having watched his videos right after we finished our Masdar Scenarios made me realize that we had to implement his way of thinking into our designs and understand what’s wrong and inapplicable to the future about our designs.

Week 6 Reflection

I think that this week we took a look at how future studies are conducted and what are the examples of them. It was interesting to learn about a guys who literally made himself an project that showed people how he wanted to tackle the fear of the future — by embracing them. I was a little bit…

Critique of our life scenario using Jim Dator’s Futures

Growth

After nailing down a job in a large firm called Foogle, I end up working many hours a week to get the insane amount of work received by Foogle due to the increasing number of new projects and…

Week 5 Reflection

It was interesting to see the keywords that came up on the screen as I walked into class in Wednesday. From the first day we saw the words on the screen about our hopes and fears, we had come a long way to see that our keywords about future and future thinking were much more similar than the…

Critique of the Masdar Scenario

When I finalized my Masdar scenario, I implemented a topic that had no racial or economic…

Final Week Reflection

It has been a long journey. When someone is given several months to study a topic in depth, the actual learning takes place on many levels. I think this week was focused on experimental/activity-based learning about future design.

Week 10 Reflection

I want to mostly talk about the class on Friday and how interesting it was to embed our in class knowledge into a business model. First of all, my group consisted of me and Max so I had a great chance to impact the idea. We were given the task of coming up with a business plan that would aid…

November 18 In-Class Business Model Canvas

We had a change to brainstorm a free product business model that would aid the advancement of free education by 2050. Me and Max Stein came up with the following: