Unfinished Business Design Fiction Lecture

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1. driving better futures Scott Smith Changeist Unfinished Business Lecture September 29, 2010 #designfiction Design Fiction: Provoking the Future by Making It
2. driving better futures About Me
3. driving better futures Design Foresight Strategy
4. driving better futures How do design, our imagination and science fiction interact?
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7. driving better futures Made in 1967, from 1963 novel La Planète des Singes by Pierre Boulle
8. driving better futures Made in 1971, from 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
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12. driving better futures PADD, Star Trek Next Generation
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15. driving better futures That’s all nice, but how do we make the future happen more often?
16. driving better futures Future Past Fact Fiction Histories Myths Signals Scenarios
17. driving better futures Brain Centers
18. driving better futures People who could touch something, instead of just hear or read about it, were 50% more likely to select the “experienced” item. — Caltech research
19. driving better futures What’s Design Fiction got to do with it?
20. driving better futures •  Design fiction attempts “to correct for the limitations in how we think about the future”. –  Jake Dunagan, Institute for the Future
21. driving better futures “…Science fiction does not merely anticipate but actively shapes technological futures through its effect on the collective imagination.” -Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell, “Resistance is Futile”: Reading Science Fiction Alongside Ubiquitous Computing
22. driving better futures “Design seeks out ways to jump over its own conceptual walls— scenarios, user observation, brainstorming, rapid prototyping, critical design, speculative design.” -Bruce Sterling, Interactions magazine, May/June 2009
23. driving better futures “How can design participate in shaping possible near future worlds? How can the integration of story telling, technology, art and design provide opportunities to re-imagine how the world may be in the future? How does the material act of making and crafting things— real, material objects — shape how we think about what is possible and how we think about what should be possible?” -Julian Bleecker, Near Future Laboratory
24. driving better futures Design and Existential Risk: http://designexrisk.wordpress.com/
25. driving better futures ≠ We can’t keep trying to rewrite the script to make our desired endings come true (good or bad). If we have our own points of view—if we OWN the future—we can use our powers of synthesis to keep rewriting and rethinking these style manuals, and make new artifacts to test their physics.
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27. driving better futures Globalization Fragmentation Low Growth High Growth The Long Boom Divided World Hard Times Perfect Storm
28. driving better futures ACTIVE FUTURES =
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30. driving better futures Fringe, Season Two
31. driving better futures The Other Side Our Side
32. driving better futures Stuart Candy and Jake Dunagan, Found Futures Project
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35. driving better futures www.the-salvare.com.
36. driving better futures BERG London http://berglondon.com/blog/2009/10/12/the-ghost-in-the-field/
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38. driving better futures Prototyping around known needs and capabilities Prototyping around unknown needs and possibilities
39. driving better futures Not just asking, but making, “what ifs”.
40. driving better futures Finding the loosely distributed pieces
41. driving better futures Design/ Foresight Futurehacking/ “Guerilla Futures” Strategic Design/ Strategic Foresigh t Futurejacking
42. driving better futures What the future will do to you What you will do to the future
43. driving better futures Now Hiring
44. driving better futures The future won’t write itself.
45. driving better futures Design Foresight Strategy
46. driving better futures Further Reading •  Julian Bleecker — http:// www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/ •  Nicolas Nova — http://www.liftlab.com/think/nova/ •  Bruce Sterling — http://www.wired.com/ beyond_the_beyond/category/design-fiction/ •  Stuart Candy — http://futuryst.blogspot.com/ •  Jake Dunagan — http://www.iftf.org •  Matt Jones — http://magicalnihilism.com/ •  Jason Tester — http://www.iftf.org/blog/14
47. driving better futures Scott Smith ssmith@changeist.com @changeist