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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

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 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…

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…

Week 4 Reflection

This week approached a much micro-environment of the society: A family. (2 to be exact.) I had a really interesting time trying become their 3rd eye in the family, getting to know them as much as they did know themselves. It was interesting to see an abundant amount of camera footage and natural…

Week 3 Reflection

There are many ways to think about how we can reshape bad examples of futures into better ones. I think that the main focus of this week was enabling us to imagine difficult futures and products about them. Before the class even began, we were given the blockchain reading to understand how it…