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https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/faculty/anthony-dunne/

https://dunneandraby.co.uk/content/biography

Not to present commercially-driven designs ideas, but to debate and identify crucial issues that might happen in the future.

Concerned with the consequences and implications of the relationship between science, technology, and humans.

It criticises the relationship by proposing provocative future design scenarios where tech and design implications are huge. Meant to trigger debate about the future challenges.

May seem irreverent in nature but they are meant to initiate discussions, not to market products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_design

Usually deliberately ambiguous to spark debate about what future we want vs what future we don’t want.

Helps us imagine what the future will look like

Speculative design opens door to new ideas in an exciting way

Images:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ZsArFWDZc

https://arts.cern/artist/anthony-dunne-fiona-raby

https://beckil.wordpress.com/tag/week-nine/

Japan

https://shmuplations.com/nextgen/

https://features.japantimes.co.jp/heisei-moments-part-8-communication/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/environmental-impact

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/578431145882195724/

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/1/20/the-negative-consequences-of-car-dependency

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Designing the human body by Agi Haines

https://www.agihaines.com/transfigurations

https://mod.org.au/exhibits/transfigurations/

Designing human organs and parts that would take natural evolution millions of years to create

Thermal epidermiplasty

Extending the skin on the scalp increases the surface area for faster heat dissipation. With the increase in global warming this child would be able to withstand working in high temperatures due to the higher number of veins near the surface of the skin.

Bibuccalplasty

Extension of the cheeks can be achieved through expansion clips, once the clips are embedded in the cheek wall the skin and muscle can be stretched over a period of three months allowing fast and efficient caffeine absorption for a child entering a high stress career.

Extension Ostergenesis

In order to achieve the more rounded face shape of an aerodynamic child, pins will be surgically implanted into the nasal bridge along with a cranial support brace. Tightening the pins will allow the bone to be farmed up to one millimetre a day in a particular direction.

Podiaectomy

A high incidence of asthma can be prevented by the removal of the central phalange. Leaving the soft fleshy skin exposed for the potential contraction of a hookworm, a parasite known for reducing allergic responses.

Epidermal Myostomy

A new orifice can be fashioned by extending the skin and thin muscle behind the ear, which can then be tightened and tucked to create a sphincter. A baby diagnosed with a disorder in which tablets or other drugs have to be taken regularly would benefit from an extra opening in a low fatty and therefore slow absorbing area.

Organisms have been nicely designed or fitted by the blind force of natural selection. Perhaps now we are taking control of our own evolution by extending our idea of the human body.

https://youtu.be/L6TohsCGdl0?si=NyHC29hL9xFFruPy

One way ticket by Joseph Popper

https://www.rca.ac.uk/students/joseph-popper/

https://we-make-money-not-art.com/the_one_way_ticket_to_space/

The Galactic Everyday by Christine Lew

https://lewchristine.com/#/new-gallery-2/

https://www.dezeen.com/2017/08/03/christine-lew-objects-overlooked-space-colonisation-mars-central-saint-martins/

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Online and offline identities are becoming one

We wear masks online, whether that be profile pictures, vr avatars, etc.

Our offline and online identities are becoming one.

We wear masks of anonymity like profile pics and vr avatars but it's not so different from wearing a mask in the real world. Your personality is still reflected in how you present yourself online.

We'll soon be in some “Ready Player One” type dystopia because already a lot of people see going outside as a break from being online instead of being online as a break from being outside

Space sci fi movies like Star Trek inspired real life space exploration and invention of mobile phones. What if movies like the Matrix and Blade Runner inspire a hybrid relationship between humans and tech.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/03/1167815751/50-years-ago-martin-cooper-made-the-first-cell-phone-call#:~:text=Hourly%20News-,50%20years%20ago%2C%20Martin%20Cooper%20made%20the%20first%20cellphone%20call,available%20to%20the%20general%20public.

https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/speculative-design/

https://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2015/02/27/leonard-nimoy-dead-spock-star-trek/index.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-the-tablet-2013-5?r=US&IR=T

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060028/

https://www.space.com/41491-star-trek-worf-space-station-experiment.html

https://www.issnationallab.org/the-final-frontier-star-trek-and-the-iss/

https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/

Future is becoming more hybrid (online and offline)

Are you the real you online or offline?

Offline, the real life world is seen as becoming progressively boring.

People socialising is the real catalyst for change from the chronically online dystopia. For example, mothers with their children, people eating out at restaurants, professionals opening laptops in public spaces, people drinking beer together at a pub/bar at the end of a work day.

The matrix https://www.warnerbros.co.uk/movies/matrix

Blade runner 2049 https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/blade-runner-2049

Ready player one https://www.warnerbros.co.uk/movies/ready-player-one

Rick and morty https://www.warnerbros.co.uk/tv/rick-and-morty-season-1

Cyberpunk edgerunners https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81054853

Cyborg https://www.dc.com/characters/cyborg

Alien https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/alien  https://www.timeout.com/movies/alien-1

The martian https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/the-martian

Walle https://www.pixar.com/feature-films/walle

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Traditional government policy making tends to focus on single certain possibilities for the future. Created on written docs tracking data as time goes on, rather than anything visual or 3D. Policy making doesn’t want to spark too much debate or media storm. However that is recently changing as the UK government has started using speculative design for policy making. https://youtu.be/nzD3uH2_Fo0?si=gyt8TjCXenhtYezH

Say something outrageous to spark debate while also moving the posts on what is acceptable to say. For example, Brexit supporters put this quote in a massive alerting font on a bus: “We send the EU £350 million a week, let's fund our NHS instead”. It provokes debate. This is an example of speculative design. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/brexits-hearts-over-minds-tale-two-campaigns-alicia-wanless

Dominic Cummings was the brains behind the vote leave campaigns including the battle bus. https://www.pixartprinting.co.uk/blog/brexit-graphics/

Ironic piece because the slogan doesn’t match the materials used to make the art. The bus was made in Germany and Poland but the aim was for British independence from the EU. https://news.sky.com/story/johnson-starts-vote-leave-tour-on-german-bus-10278043