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Japan’s Future Design movement offers a unique model for overcoming short-termism in democratic decision-making. Drawing on traditional culture, Future Design is inspired by the principle of seventh-generation decision making, with the aim of strengthening intergenerational justice. Future Design was developed by Tatsuyoshi Saijo, a Japanese economist, who directs the Research Institute for Future Design at Kochi University of Technology.
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One of the most challenging aspects of this change will be to meet mounting cooling demands in an eco-friendly way. Cooling is innately more difficult than heating: any form of energy can become heat, and our bodies and machines naturally generate heat even in the absence of active heating systems. Cooling does not benefit equally from spontaneous generation, making it often more difficult, more costly, or less efficient to implement. Global warming and its very tangible heating effects only exacerbate this reality, intensifying an already accelerating demand for artificial cooling systems. As it stands, many of these systems require large amounts of electricity and rely heavily on fossil fuels to function. The buildings sector must find ways to meet mounting demand for cooling that simultaneously elides these unsustainable effects.
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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.
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Building Blocks is a video game that allows any person to mock-up the future development of their city. We developed Building Blocks through Unity. The game is an easy-to-use design tool that allows any citizen to participate in design workshopping without any knowledge of 3d modeling programs.
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This essay proposes five models of innovation in higher education that expand our "Ideas of the University," envisioning educational start-ups in the spirit of entrepreneurial experimentation. The author seeks to realize each of these feasible utopias as a way to disrupt higher education.
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But when it comes to culture we tend to believe not that the future will be very different than the present day, but that it will be roughly the same. Try to imagine yourself at some future date. Where do you imagine you will be living? What will you be wearing? What music will you love?
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