#speculative everything

[docesesentaysiete]

We believe that by speculating more, at all levels of society, and exploring alternative scenarios, reality will become more malleable and, although the future cannot be predicted, we can help set in place today factors that will increase the probability of more desirable futures happening. And equally, factors that may lead to undesirable futures can be spotted early on and addressed or at least limited.

Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby, Speculative Everything

[docesesentaysiete]

When people think of design, most believe it is about problem solving. Even the more expressive forms of design are about solving aesthetic problems. Faced with huge challenges such as overpopulation, water shortages, and climate change, designers feel an overpowering urge to work together to fix them, as though they can be broken down, quantified, and solved. Design’s inherent optimism leaves no alternative but it is becoming clear that many of the challenges we face today are unfixable and that the only way to overcome them is by changing our values, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. Although essential most of the time, design’s inbuilt optimism can greatly complicate things, first, as a form of denial that the problems we face are more serious than they appear, and second, by channeling energy and resources into fiddling with the world out there rather than the ideas and attitudes inside our heads that shape the world out there.

Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby, Speculative Everything

[speculativedorus-blog]

Remember that you can be an architect of the future.

NASA

[speculativedorus-blog]

Bij het begin van mijn onderzoek moest ik denken aan deze posters gemaakt door NASA. Op de posters worden planeten gepromoot voor toekomstige ruimtereizen. Zo zie je planeten zoals Mars, Venus of Jupiter in een bepaalde stijl die bij de desbetreffende planeet past. Bij het zien van deze posters begin ik al te fantaseren: Wat als deze nou echt zouden zijn? Waardoor je even een glimp krijgt van hoe de toekomst eruit zou kunnen zien. 

Ik vond dat ze zelf er ook een mooie stukje over schreven:

Imagination is our window into the future. At NASA/JPL we strive to be bold in advancing the edge of possibility so that someday, with the help of new generations of innovators and explorers, these visions of the future can become a reality. As you look through these images of imaginative travel destinations, remember that you can be an architect of the future.

Door dit soort beelden te maken krijgen wij als mensheid een beter beeld welke richting wij heen willen in de toekomst. Deze beelden helpen ons speculeren. Dit liever niet, dit liever wel, dit lijkt me geweldig enzovoort.....

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Speculative Everything

How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.

[formsubstance]

[intothefort]

speculative everything reading —

-the bit about “one million little utopias” is really powerful, that we all have whole worlds in our minds but have to flesh out our projections of what we want the world to be though speculative design. now all of the utopia projects are beginning to make sense :)

-“designers can still facilitate a dreaming process that unlocks people’s imaginations” yes! this is a really good definition of what design does, need to start thinking more this way with more faith in the audience

-”the messy human details...are right in the foreground”  

THINK TANKS ARE UNTHINKABLE

-i feel like the design world/people that are designers in general are all leaning towards “anarcho-evolutionists”

[guicuri]

"Ideals shouldn't be measured by how they conform with reality; but reality should be judged by whether it lives up to ideals"