#anab jain

[robertogreco]

"What if we deny that human beings are exceptional? What if we stop speaking and listening only to ourselves?" --Anne Galloway (slide from Anab Jain's"Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics")

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Assignment 4- ( draft 1) : Anab Jain

Anab Jain is the co-founder of Superflux, a design and experiential futures company that explores the implications of emerging technologies on society and culture.

Project Highlight: Invocation for Hope

"Invocation for Hope" is an immersive artwork by Superflux that imagines a future where people live peacefully with nature. The installation uses a calm, nature-filled setting to make people think about environmental problems and how humans affect the planet.

Photo Description:

The image shows a peaceful scene with lots of greenery and natural features. It beautifully combines human-made and natural elements, symbolizing the balance between people and nature that the project envisions, inspiring thoughts about a better, sustainable future.

Anab Jain's work stands out because of her ability to blend speculative design with tangible, immersive experiences that challenge our understanding of the future. Her projects are not just about imagining possibilities; they provoke deep thought, often by making potential futures emotionally and visually accessible to people today.

[robertogreco]

Anab Jain: "The Homeschool Timetable, post-it version.":

9-11 Pretend it’s school 11-12 Imagine 12-1 Food 1-3 Experiment 3-5 Go Feral 5-6 Exercise 6-8 We made it!

[nextwavefutures]

Sixes and Sevens #035

Sixes and Sevens #035. This week: Gender perceptions of work deflect from other problems; the white swans of the global economy; doing science in new ways to beat the virus; remembering Freeman Dyson; @AnabJain on Ursula LeGuin.

My weekly collection of the provocative, intriguing, or curious, in a world where the house is falling down. The contextual, the cultural, and other things that catch my eye.

Image of a mute swan by The Wildlife Trusts

Maybe work-life ‘balance’ isn’t the thing holding women back at work. A fascinating Harvard company study found gendered perceptions of roles screened a dysfunctional culture of…

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Anab Jain on speculative design, filmmaking, and building a new type of studio model

On this week's episode of Scratching the Surface — my podcast about design criticism and practice — I have a wonderful conversation with the designer, futurist, filmmaker, and educator Anab Jain. Anab is the co-founder and Director of Superflux, where works to realize the vision of their studio as a new kind of design practice, responsive to the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. She also teaches at the University Applied Arts in Vienna and gave a TED Talk last year on design's role in imagining new futures.

A major theme of the podcast over the last few months has been building alternative practices that blend different modes of work and Superflux embodies so many of these ideas within a traditional studio model. The studio's work is split between more traditional client work and consulting and more speculative, almost art-like projects that imagine new futures. I was really interested in this business model and how they thought about their work.

These questions opened the conversation before moving into Anab's own background, where she studied filmmaking and how she transitioned to interaction design. We also talk about teaching and how she brings this way of thinking about design into the classroom as well as the problems with the increasing borders around different disciplines within design.

I really enjoyed this conversation and found Anab incredibly thoughtful and engaging. We touched on so many things I've been thinking about in my own work — especially as a director of a new studio that's still trying to articulate what we do — and then how that makes it way into the classroom. If anything, this conversation helped me work through some things I've been struggling with in my own work. I hope you get as much out of it as I did. Enjoy!

You can listen to the episode here, or on iTunes, Google Play, and Soundcloud. Memberships are available for $5/month or $50/year if you want to support the show. And if you like it, please consider leaving a review on iTunes.

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Translating Future Uncertainty into Present Day Choices.

Superflux website

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Can speculative evidence inform decision making?

Over at Superflux, our work investigating potential and plausible futures, involves extensively scanning for trends and signals from which we trace and extrapolate into the future. Both qualitative and quantitative data play an important role. In doing such work, we have observed how data is often used as evidence, and seen as definitive. Historical and contemporary datasets are often used as evidence for a mandate for future change, especially in some of the work we have undertaken with governments and policy makers. But lately we have been thinking if this drive for data as evidence has led to the unshakeable belief that data is evidence.

via https://medium.com/@anabjain/can-speculative-evidence-inform-decision-making-6f7d398d201f

[zzkt]

Making as an Act of Caring

If we are going to idolise makers and create large-scale foundries, incubators and educational programs to inculcate and embrace the love for making, then lets nourish this idea of making as care-giving too, and ensure that the ‘maker-culture’ we build is diverse and inclusive. And in doing so, encourage a relentless inquisitiveness, integrity, and pliancy that it can bring for us, those around us and the environments we live in.

via https://medium.com/@anabjain/making-as-an-act-of-caring-6a8ec70cebed