#designforthefuture

[xperland3dfilament]

coolest bike on street. #Repost @idetudelft (@get_repost) ・・・ I want to ride my bicycle 🚲 #designforthefuture #idetudelft #productdesign #industrialdesign #bicycle #bicycledesign #3Dprinting #mx3d

[ianfulgar]

While exploring new tools and future techniques for design, I came across a concept that truly made me reflect—a colorful, artsy complex that seemed to embody joy. This vivid design led me to question: how much can our built environments influence our happiness? Architects can shape spaces that do more than serve a purpose. Can we create environments that inspire and uplift? This concept pushes us to consider the potential of design to enhance our well-being and bring happiness back to our communities.

[b-originaldesigns]

Happy Hump Day! Another successful year (even if it did take a little longer 😊). So excited to share for the 2nd year my fundraiser #designingfutures that I do threw @interactofwake 💜. This year we donated 683 items! (& a huge shout out to @12thstatecf for donating 487 of them! You guys are amazing! 💪🏼🐼). Its no surprise that over time we all accumulate all sorts of things we no longer use and I love seeing these things go to great women who just need a little help. Everyone deserves a better tomorrow 👩🏻‍💼. #designforthefuture #shedesignedalifesheloved #designlife #designlove #wastenotwantnot #raleighlife #boriginaldesigns . . . #womenhelpingwomen #helpothers #fundraiser #clothingdrive #interact #bettertomorrow #fakeittillyoumakeit #design #designer #deaigninspiration #raleigh #oberlinrd #northcarolina #boriginal (at InterAct)

[ashleekinginterfacedesign2]

From Design Fiction to Experiential Futures

http://news.noahraford.com/?p=1625

This chapter explores the role design fiction, experiential futures and visual media in foresight work.

The article has various examples these were some of my favourite. 

http://youtu.be/pbZu1WNJNLQ

“Fly Me to the Moon” is a short video developed by APF member Heather Schlegel for the financial transaction company, SWIFT.  On the surface, it explores the future for electronic payments. Beyond that, it explores how concepts of trust, identity, ease, convenience and technology will interact with money in the future.  It is told with realistic characters, emotion and social meaning, embedded in an everyday world of remarkable richness and depth.

This project is subtle and compelling.  Like the best kinds of design future hybrids, it is also well researched and rich with strategic insight.  It thus works as an excellent piece of futures research and as an engaging piece of media and entertainment. Even more interesting, it does so with practically no special effects or high technology.

Our Plastic Century

http://news.noahraford.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/IMG_0855-edit-s.preview.jpg

Futurists Stuart Candy and Jake Dunagan sought to create an installation that would trigger “the wisdom of repugnance” in their project, Our Plastic Century; an attempt to visualize and extrapolate trends in ocean pollution debuted at the California Academy of Sciences in 2010.

The projectPlastic Century consists of four large water coolers filled with plastic debris representing the total amount of plastic produced and existing on Earth at four different points in time: the birth of Jacques Cousteau (1910), at 1960, at the present, and forecast out to 2030.

The project uses an intensely visual and intuitive approach, provoking a powerful reaction from its viewers. Although not a scenario project, the projection of plastic accumulation evoked the futurist’s goal of “making the familiar strange and the strange, familiar”. “We are trying to recalibrate people’s reality,” write Candy and Dunagan.  In its simplicity and museum exhibition formatting, the installation successful transports the viewer into a future world, grabs them emotionally, and then suggests new ways of seeing their behavior today with renewed clarity.

In all of these projects the designers have used design in way that evokes an emotional response to their viewers I think this is a beneficial way in which we should be designing for the future.