SF Speculative Futures - Phil Balagtas

SF Critical Design & Speculative Futures

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9pm-?@ House of Shields39 New Montgomery St

Why Another Design Meetup? Platform for Conversation Explore Methods Talk About Cool Projects

Future Content Speakers Workshops Student Work

What will we be talking about? Speculative Design Critical Design Design Fiction All of the above.

Speculative Design is …a bending of the way we think about the world and how design sits into it.

…designing for alternate futures.

The Futures Cone

The Futures Cone

Signals

What will we be talking about? Speculative Design Critical Design. Design Fiction

“let's call it critical design, that questions the cultural, social  and ethical implications of emerging technologies.

A form of design that can help us to define the most desirable futures, and avoid the least desirable.”

- Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby

Technological Dream Series: No.1 Robots

Dunne & Raby 2007

What if? What could happen? How about… What would it be like?

According to the UN, we need to produce 70% more food in the next 40 years.

Designs for an Overpopulated Planet: Foragers Dunne & Raby

The Grey Rush David BenjaminSoo-in Yang

Famine.

Republic of Salivation Burton Nitta

The Abandoned Robot Buton Nitta

How will we treat the end of the lives of future living and thinking products?

If this is a future, then what other scenarios exist around the ethical treatment of AI as objects…as organisms?

Ex Machina

Fly Me to the Moon aka Dinner with friends Swift financial transactions

Intel's design fiction on the future of education

Speculative Design a way of thinking that frees your creative compass.

Synthesis.

Synthesis of ideas.

Synthesis of worlds.

Synthesis of futures.

Synthesis of potential futures.

Phil Balagtas @neshacom1 [email protected]

Jordan Presnick @JordanPresnick