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Josie Thaddeus-Johns / May 29, 2020
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View All TagsTo Build a Brighter Future in Tech, Superflux Gives Tarot a Timely Update
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Technology and late-stage capitalism have unleashed a maelstrom of societal challenges. This tarot deck, updated with symbols like The Hacker and The Drone, helps designers unlock new perspectives — and maybe new solutions.
Read moreDesign Fiction - Prototyping Desirable Futures
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Design fiction enables us to imagine and critically explore possibilities for the future through tangible objects.
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In 2014, over 4,000 people and dozens of speakers descended on Dubai for the second annual Government Summit. As part of the summit, an exhibition was opened at the Museum of Future Government Services, a display of interactive demonstrations showcasing what life in Dubai could be in 2050.
Read moreScience Fiction And Design Fiction To Elicit Values In Sensing Technologies
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This project explores how science fiction and design fiction can be used to explore possible futures and elicit values surrounding emerging sensing technologies. In particular, we focus on values and issues related to privacy.
Read moreWhat is design fiction?
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Discover how forward-thinking designers are combining prototyping techniques with science fiction.
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A designer is by nature a futurist, designers create ideas that are not yet of this world, and turn those ideas into the world we live in. To design therefore is an exercise in futurity. While designers typically create for the very near future, how often does the designer reflect on the potential worlds they are creating? How often do they question…
Read moreSci-Fi Writer Bruce Sterling Explains the Intriguing New Concept of Design Fiction
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I’m in Tempe, Ariz., today for Emerge: Artists and Scientists Redesign the Future, a conference at Arizona State University. One intriguing new way to think about the future is through the concept of “design fiction.” When you first hear the phrase, it sounds slightly nebulous. One usefuldefinition calls design fiction “an approach to design that speculates about new ideas through prototyping and storytelling.”
Read moreDesign Fiction - diegetic prototypes
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*THIS POST BY Julian Bleecker raises the question: can't you do "design fiction" about fully-functioning objects in the diegesis that are malevolent and make things worse? Of course you can, because imaginary high-tech supervillain gear is all about that. There are tons of cinematic design-fiction about imaginary gear intended for evil mayhem.
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