Introducing Speculative Design Paradigm
This vision of this publication is to house multiple articles and case studies on foreseeable future problems, and possible, plausible, and preferable solutions captured in both the writers contemplations and the readers comments. All this, in effort to change our paradigm.
Why am I writing, speaking, and starting this publication?
Today, I’m an instructor, lecturer, and mentor of UX Design at University of California San Diego and Springboard. I’ve been tutoring Art History since 2010, and participating in the evolution of education from in-person to online. From 2006–2008 I was the camera man for online history class at Vincennes University. I also helped design for a Blackboard curriculum assisting the director of teaching and learning.
It is my interest in history of our past that has brought my attention to our future, because if we don’t learn from history we’re doomed to repeat it. As the famous quote goes.
What has increasingly brought my attention to the future are a few social, technology, and economic trends.
- Global Warming Crisis and Renewable Energy
- Gross Concentration of Wealth and Cryptocurrency
- War, Military Industrial Complex, Colonialism, and Digital Nomads
- Mass Deforestation and Sustainability
- Aging and Over Population and Inter Planetary Living
- Universal, Inclusivity, and Accessibility and Bionic Apendages
- Water Shortage, Access to Clean Water and Desalination
- Unskilled Workforce and Universal Basic Income
This list may grow as the publication takes form. Yes, some of these problems exist now, yet in the future they may result in either way. It’s the responsibility of the Spec Designer to design for the what ifs and preferable solutions.
Where UX Design has been concentrating on solving digital dilemmas we’ve turned a blind eye to the pressing IRL (in real life) matters just out of reach.
It’s time to change our paradigm from immediate first world problems to future pandemic ones.
If interested in becoming a contributing writer, please contact me.
