It is becoming clear that many of the challenges we face today are unfixable and that the only way to overcome them is by changing our values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviour.
Design’s denial that the problems we face are more serious than they appear.
Channelling energy and resources into thing … rather than the ideas and attitudes inside our heads.
Alternative ways of being.
Possible futures as tools.
>> Research meth // Strategic foresight and innovation howto
-- http://2020mediafutures.ca/
-- http://slab.ocadu.ca/project/what-is-foresight-video-series
Guerilla futures :( :( :(
Probable: Most designers operate.
Plausible: scenario planning and foresight. -- not prediction
Possible: Scientifically possible, believable series of events, role of expert is not to prevent the impossible but to make it acceptable.
Fantasy: yawn
Government + industry determine probable / plausible.
If it is possible to create more socially constructive imaginary futures, could design help people participate more actively as citizen-consumers?
Using design to open all sorts of possibilities that can be discussed
1980’s - hyper commercialized, design intergrated into neoliberal capitalism
Victor Papanek - socially orientated designer 1970
Society of individuals, possible to strive for a million tiny utopias
Downgrading of dreams to hopes, planet’s limited resources
Younger generation doesnt dream: it hopes that we will survive, that there will be water for all, that we will be able to feed everyone, that we will not destroy ourselves.
Financial crash of 2008 - new interest in alternatives to current system.
Need pluralism in design, of ideology and values.
Design’s denial that the problems we face are more serious than they appear.
Channelling energy and resources into thing … rather than the ideas and attitudes inside our heads.
Alternative ways of being.
Possible futures as tools.
>> Research meth // Strategic foresight and innovation howto
-- http://2020mediafutures.ca/
-- http://slab.ocadu.ca/project/what-is-foresight-video-series
Guerilla futures :( :( :(
Probable: Most designers operate.
Plausible: scenario planning and foresight. -- not prediction
Possible: Scientifically possible, believable series of events, role of expert is not to prevent the impossible but to make it acceptable.
Fantasy: yawn
Government + industry determine probable / plausible.
If it is possible to create more socially constructive imaginary futures, could design help people participate more actively as citizen-consumers?
Using design to open all sorts of possibilities that can be discussed
1980’s - hyper commercialized, design intergrated into neoliberal capitalism
Victor Papanek - socially orientated designer 1970
Society of individuals, possible to strive for a million tiny utopias
Downgrading of dreams to hopes, planet’s limited resources
Younger generation doesnt dream: it hopes that we will survive, that there will be water for all, that we will be able to feed everyone, that we will not destroy ourselves.
Financial crash of 2008 - new interest in alternatives to current system.
Need pluralism in design, of ideology and values.
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