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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:

Week 9 Reflection

Since the events that happened this week, the classes that took place this week were some of the most interesting ones. I believe the reason of this the strong connection of the events and how it affects our own future. Since we know that there is a range where our future could end up, we are…

Week 9 Peer Review

Since I couldn’t do the peer reviews through blackboard, I will be writing them down here:

Review 1(9):

While I focused on what we did in class how it was important to the big picture of the topic of free education in 2050, the writer went on…

Week 9 Reflection

On Wednesday my friend and I discussed a tool that could possibly be produced within the next 20–30 years that can aid minimalism. Our idea was to combine a tool that could help you understand the underlying structure of waste materials and give you a break down of what materials it consisted of…

Week 8 Reflection

Weak Signals and Challenges for consumerist vs. minimalist future designs

This week was mostly about designing futures for a consumerist / minimalist future. Over the span of two classes we deeply investigated the pros and…

Week 7 Reflection

I have a confusing experience about the last to weeks of the class. Since the beginning of the semester, we have been rising through the years of futures research/thinking and understanding how it can help us be better designers while factoring in the methods we have learnt in the class. However…

Futures Wheel