Design for Desirable Futures @ IxDA Lausanne

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1. Marie-Cécile Godwin
   Thomas di Luccio
   IXDA Lausanne —16 April 2019
   Design for

   desirable futures
   

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3. Science & Vie n°500 - 1959
   

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4. Desirable
   futures?
   newscientist.com
   Artist: zearz
   lowtechlab.org
   NieuweMobiel.nl
   

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5. Field of
   action
   Photo by Greg Baker - AFP
   

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6. Field of
   possibilities
   

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7. design
   desirable futures?
   How do we
   

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9. 2079
   Business

   as usual
   A future where we
   did not change
   anything to the way
   we live and design
   things
   

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10. Photo by Collin Armstrong on Unsplash
    — Event
    — Population
    Climate change conference 2042
    500 millions
    — Society
    — Climate
    States collapsed, very high child mortality
    25°C / 53°C
    — Resources
    — Lifestyle
    No more fossil fuels
    Empty cities
    2079
    

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11. Photo by Collin Armstrong on Unsplash
    — Problems — Learnings
    Decline is slow and almost
    invisible, we cannot see a
    collapse before it happens
    Hell is other people
    Technical locks are very
    powerful
    We need to reconnect to the
    living, to Earth.
    We need to detect and break
    down technical locks
    2079
    

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13. 2063
    Corpocracy
    A future where
    corporations join
    forces to save our
    current modern
    civilisation
    

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14. Photo by Asa Rodger on Unsplash
    — Event
    — Population
    GAFAM coalition for Earth
    4 billion
    — Society
    — Climate
    corpocracy, regulated births
    8°C / 45°C
    — Resources
    — Lifestyle
    Rare and heavily managed
    Security quarters and slums
    2063
    

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15. Photo by Asa Rodger on Unsplash
    — Problems — Learnings
    Waiting for problems to
    solve themselves
    Trusting capitalistic
    corporations to solve
    problems
    "Hell is other people" —
    until it really is
    Everything is political
    Empowerment, individual and
    collective intellligence
    Free and open commons
    2063
    

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17. 2055
    Climatoscientism
    A future where
    science tries to
    counteract the
    planet’s limits and
    their consequences
    

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18. Photo by Zack Smith on Unsplash
    — Event
    — Population
    ReTerraForm project
    5 billion
    — Society
    — Climate
    Authoritarian scientific ecocracy
    -10°C / 40°C, 25°C / 60°C
    — Resources
    — Lifestyle
    Managed natural resources
    Hard outside of thermoregulate cities
    2055
    

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19. Photo by Zack Smith on Unsplash
    — Problems — Learnings
    Protect only one part of
    humanity
    Clutter and "technologism"
    Loss of purpose
    Never underestimate toxic
    system’s resilience
    Repair Earth and the
    living, respect its limits
    We have to make choices
    2055
    

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21. 2048
    Compensated
    Ecocracy
    A future where we
    try to compensate
    negative
    externalities,
    without stopping
    nevertheless
    

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22. Photo by Arkadiusz Podniesinski/REX Shutterstock
    — Event
    — Population
    2038: raw materials crisis
    10 billion, decreasing rapidly
    — Society
    — Climate
    High mortality, worldwide state collapse
    -5°C / 35°C
    — Resources
    — Lifestyle
    natural: abundant / fossil: depleted
    Violent / depopulated cities
    2048
    

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23. Photo by Arkadiusz Podniesinski/REX Shutterstock
    — Problems — Learnings
    Hiding problems just make
    them worse
    Social, technical,
    philosophical locks
    Repair Earth, reconnect to
    it
    2048
    

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25. 2057
    A sustainable
    future?
    A future that we
    enable right now and
    which takes into
    account our planet’s
    limits
    

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26. Photo by Arkadiusz Podniesinski/REX Shutterstock
    — Event
    — Population
    Climate strikes
    5 billion
    — Society
    — Climate
    Ecofeminist democracy
    -10°C / 35°C
    — Resources
    — Lifestyle
    natural resources back to sustainability
    Resilient, green cities
    2057
    

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27. Photo by Arkadiusz Podniesinski/REX Shutterstock
    — Problems — Learnings
    Sociological and technical
    locks prevent us from moving
    forward
    Alterity & pluralism
    Enable people to exercise
    their autonomy and
    intelligence
    Prepare ourselves emotionally
    and intellectually
    2057
    

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28. These futures have
    something in common.
    

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30. How can we
    close these futures
    right now?
    

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31. You will ask us…
    "How? Where should we start?"
    

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32. Change starts from within
    

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33. "In my last breath, what
    will I say I have done?"
    

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34. Action !
    How can we change the way
    we practice design?
    

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36. •Acknowledge and integrate Anthropocene as a focal starting point in our practice,
    •Refuse the infinite growth dogma,
    •Plan and handle our artifacts and systems' externalities and life cycles,
    •Prove and assume design as a political act,
    •Preserve, even regenerate our planet's habitability,
    •Support ourselves as peers by creating convivial design tools.
    

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37. Anthropocenic
    Design
    Heuristics
    New postures
    of the self
    New

    beginnings
    New modes

    of action
    

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38. Anthropocenic
    Design
    Heuristics
    

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39. New

    beginnings
    Planetary limits
    Empowerment
    Resources and scales
    Dismantling lock-ups
    Justice & re-politisation
    

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40. New

    beginnings
    

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41. New

    beginnings
    Corollary 1 : we cannot allow
    ourselves to genette any négative
    externality. The concept of "trash"
    must disappear from our practice.
    Corollary 2 : any resource utilisation
    creates either a human, social or
    environmental debt that has to be
    reimbursed anyhow.
    Actions : Design and plan life cycles,
    manage resources as debts, define every
    system’s perimeter, etc
    References : The Limits to Growth —
    Donella & Dennis Meadows - 1972
    The Shift Project (https://
    theshiftproject.org/en/
    We exist within a finished and hermetic world: no
    matter and no energy comes from nowhere nor
    disappears.
    Planetary limits
    

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42. New postures

    of the self
    Alignment / inspiration
    Prepare yourself emotionally
    Introspection, humility
    Inspect our tools for thought
    Alterity and pluralism
    

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43. New means

    of action
    Bring beauty to the world
    Knowledge and commons
    Transdisciplinarity, offset skills
    "Show, not tell"
    Decrease negative, increase positive
    

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44. Tools Circular economy
    Energy
    Climate
    Low-tech design
    Ethics and inclusivity
    Economics
    Low-tech practical skills
    Defuturation
    Externalities
    …
    

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45. origensmedialab.org/closing-worlds/
    Project
    Design Fiction
    Tools for action
    

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46. Good read
    Knowledge base
    Tools for action
    reinventingorganizations.com
    

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47. sarawb.com
    Good read
    Training
    Tools for action
    safiyaunoble.com
    

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48. theshiftproject.org
    Political program
    Training
    Tools for action
    

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49. Training
    Knowledge base
    Tools for action
    ourworldindata.com
    

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50. unschools.co
    Training
    Knowledge base
    Tools for action
    

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51. gauthierroussilhe.com/fr/posts/convert-low-tech
    Methods
    Low-tech
    Tools for action
    

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52. lowtechlab.org
    Training
    Low-tech
    Tools for action
    

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53. bloomsbury.com/uk/design-futuring-9781847882172/
    Design
    Knowledge base
    Tools for action
    

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54. You might feel
    overwhelmed.
    And you might feel unable to see what to do next.
    It’s okay. You are far from being alone.
    

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55. Action !
    Help us build our
    heuristics!
    You can add resources and links, enrich the knowledge
    base, refine the principles, etc
    frama.link/commonfutures-heuristiques
    

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56. Action !
    Let’s build frameworks and
    matrices for life cycle
    design and externality
    planning
    As well as some for energy consumption, CO2 production etc
    

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57. Action !
    "Show, don’t tell"
    A tangible artifact or a real project is worth ten
    thousand words. If it’s real, no one can deny its
    existence. Release this POC into the wild!
    

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58. Action !
    Let’s be radical
    The world will change only because of our radicalism and
    the way we don’t negotiate with ourselves.
    Soft compromise is not an option.
    

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59. Action !
    Let’s be leaders, but not
    just any leader
    And let’s demand better leaders too!
    

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61. "Great warlords only fight for
    the dignity of the weak"
    

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62. Action !
    Let’s write our stories
    and wear them like a badge
    Your values, the path you took, your story are worth
    writing and reading. We need as many tales as possible.
    medium.com/common-futures
    

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63. No fight or cause is better
    than any other.
    There is room for everyone and every fight.
    Room for every way of fighting.
    Room for all angles.
    Let’s be better allies.
    Fight so that others can fight
    the way they want.
    

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64. What if it’s not
    enough?
    and our future becomes everything but desirable?
    

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65. There is no "good solution".
    There is no solution.
    We will not capture all the CO2 we produced during the
    last century. We cannot change the course of time. We
    have to deal with this new state of things.
    Will we collapse? Or will we degrade? It doesn’t matter.
    The difference lies in what we choose to do as of today.
    

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66. ""In my last breath, I will
    be able to say that I did
    my best."
    

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67. So let’s do our best
    :)
    

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68. common-futures.org
    mcgodwin.com
    thomas.diluccio.fr
    Thomas di Luccio
    Marie-Cécile
    Godwin
    Designers
    

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69. common-futures.org
    mcgodwin.com
    thomas.diluccio.fr
    Thomas di Luccio
    Marie-Cécile
    Godwin
    Designers
    frama.link/futursdesirables
    

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