Lift 14 Geneva - Alpine Futures

Design Fiction Workshop on the future of the Alps

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1. A Workshop on Alpine Futures Lift14 / Hannes Gassert
2. Authentic alps are a product of technology and culture.
14. Alpine Innovation: Future in the Past?
20. Alpine Megatrends
21. Alpine Megatrends: Climate Change
28. Alpine Megatrends: Depopulation
39. Prototyping Alpine Retreats
40. Ethnofuturism?
47. Augmented Alpine Reality
51. Alpine Sensor Networks
57. Alpine Undergrounds
62. Alpine Drones
68. Alpine Robotics
74. Near Alpine Futures
75. Use your Alpine Artefacts!
76. Alpine Design Fiction Innovation flows through culture. Prototyping & storytelling. For futures we can feel. We will now form groups. Everybody presents the alpine artefacts they brought. Each group will create a story/drawing/song/play/powerpoint/.. incorporating all the artefacts on the table. Story takes place in 2029.
77. Alpine Design Fiction: Examples An advertisement for independent ski tours with “big dog”. An augmented reality ritual for expanding alpine barrier lakes. A business model for a hotel where road maintenance stopped. A day on the slopes with rent-a-drone. A look into the backpack of a refugee trying to get into a Europe defended on the mountain ridges. A hipster tourism policy document for the St. Gotthard Wastelands. …
78. A Minimal Storytelling Framework Once upon a time.. And everyday until.. Until one day.. Because of that.. But oh no.. Still finally.. And ever since that day.. The moral of the story is..
79. Showtime!
80. A Workshop on Alpine Futures hannes@gassert.ch