Nov 16th — The Thing From the Future

This is the summary for week 12 “The Thing From the Future” of Seminar 3 Advanced Interaction & Service Design Concepts / Design Theory & Practice. The aim of this course is to engage in critical discourses in design and explore and reflect on the implications of designing in the world, the agency of designed artifacts, and their effects not only in human systems but also in environmental ones.

We are currently covering the third module of our course called Research x Design. The students would conduct a pilot study, topics of their choice. At the end of the semester, they will present their studies and hold a Participatory event.

This week, we talked about foresight. The class was joined by Dr. Stuart Candy talking about futures studies, a systematic study of possible, probable and preferable futures. “Mapping future can have such impact is that it’s a way of situating the “what” and “how” of daily effort within the larger “whys” in our lives. Investing in foresight capacity helps to knit vital day-to-day work to the meaningful longer-term and bigger-picture questions, and to keep those ties alive.”, he explained. He also gave an example of how to map the future. The prompt was 50 years from now, in a radical future, there’s a monument related to governance.

Later in the session, the students were given another prompt to practice mapping out experiential futures (XF). In a bizarre future, there are some devices and related to festivals, service announcements, and money.

• Stuart Candy Gaming Futures Literacy: The Thing From the Future. 2018