Design and Futures

308 Pages·2019·10.077 MB·English

by  Stuart Candy, Cher Potter (eds)

DESIGN AND FUTURES

STUART CANDY
EDITED BY
CHER POTTER
AND

Tamkang University Press

Taipei
Published by Tamkang University Press
Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwan 251

Editors’ Note: This is a single-volume compilation and reissue of the two publications
listed below. Contents, pagination and referencing are unchanged.

Design and Futures, Volume I
Journal of Futures Studies, 23(3), March 2019
Design and Futures, Volume II
Journal of Futures Studies, 23(4), June 2019

The Journal of Futures Studies is a globally-oriented, transdisciplinary refereed journal.
Its mission is to develop high-quality, futures-oriented research and thinking, based on
the evolving knowledge base of Futures Studies / Foresight.

All contributions © 2019 the authors
This compilation and layout v1.1, December 2019
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ISBN 978-1-70999-008-3
CONTENTS

DESIGN AND FUTURES, Volume I

Editors’ Introduction (Vol. I)
Stuart Candy and Cher Potter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

ARTICLES

Turning Foresight Inside Out:
An Introduction to Ethnographic Experiential Futures
Stuart Candy and Kelly Kornet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Politics of Designing Visions of the Future
Ramia Mazé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Crafting Spaces Between Design and Futures:
The Case of the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform
Cher Potter, DK Osseo-Asare, and Mugendi K. M’Rithaa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Strategic Foresight Studio:
A First-Hand Account of an Experiential Futures Course
Jake Dunagan, Alida Draudt, JJ Hadley, Ryan Hogan,
Leticia Murray, Gregory Stock, and Julia Rose West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Designing Futures From the Inside
Anne Burdick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS

How the Future Happens
James Auger and Julian Hanna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Critical Activism
Anab Jain and Stuart Candy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Storytelling Shapes the Future
Alex McDowell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
I Design Worlds
Liam Young and Stuart Candy .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Anticipating Future System States
Jamer Hunt .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
A Manifesto for Decolonising Design
Decolonising Design Collective: Danah Abdulla, Ahmed Ansari,
Ece Canlı, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Matthew Kiem, Pedro Oliveira,
Luiza Prado, and Tristan Schultz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

DESIGN AND FUTURES, Volume II

Editors’ Introduction (Vol. II)
Stuart Candy and Cher Potter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

ARTICLES

Destinations for Polyamorous Futures and Their MAD Lovers
Maya van Leemput .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Worldbuilding in Science Fiction, Foresight and Design
Leah Zaidi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
SPACECRAFT: A Southern Interventionist Art Project
Ralph Borland .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Are We (Really) Designing Futures?
The Design of Tomorrow Program at CENTRO
Karla Paniagua .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
A Futures-Design-Process Model for Participatory Futures
Stefanie A. Ollenburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Imagining 2060:
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of University Students’ Perspectives
Jeanne Hoffman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Transforming Environmental Values for a Younger Generation in
Taiwan: A Participatory Action Approach to Curriculum Design
Kuo-Hua Chen .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS

You Never Know How the Past Will Turn Out
Timothy Morton .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Design in the Future
Paola Antonelli and Cher Potter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Making Things Physical
Maja Kuzmanovic, Tina Auer, Nik Gaffney, and Tim Boykett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Napkin Futures: Fragments of Future Worlds
Nik Baerten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Change the Model
Dan Hill and Stuart Candy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
What If There Were More Policy Futures Studios?
Lucy Kimbell .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Your Move: Lessons Learned at the Interstices of Design, Gaming,
and Futures
Aaron Rosa and John A. Sweeney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Using the Future at NASA
David Delgado and Stuart Candy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Post-Island Futures: Designing for Uncertainty in a Changing Climate
Lizzie Yarina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Starting at the End: A Journey in Time
Tony Fry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
DESIGN AND FUTURES
Volume I

DOI:10.6531/JFS.201903_23(3).0001
I N T R O D U C T I O N
.1
Introduction to the Special Issue:
Design and Futures (Vol. I)
Stuart Candy
Carnegie Mellon University
USA
Cher Potter
University of the Arts London
Victoria and Albert Museum
UK
As Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon famously observed: “Everyone designs who devises courses of action
aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones” (Simon, 1996).
Designers and futurists, it turns out, have a great deal in common. This mutual recognition is reaching
critical mass as each comes to appreciate how their respective traditions have much to offer to making urgent
change in the world, and even more so, together.
It is increasingly acknowledged within the futures studies community that operating with a largely verbal
and theoretical bent over the past half century has afforded too little impact on actual future-shaping behaviours.
Meanwhile, those in the design community recognise a need to interrogate higher-level consequences – the
futures, the worlds – that their products, systems and other outputs help produce.
Part of what bringing design and futures into sustained dialogue does is to allow each field to become more
fluent in a second language which is the other’s native tongue.
How may designers systematically map out preferred futures, and what frameworks might futures studies
furnish to help them? Conversely, how might futures scholars and practitioners adopt designerly modes of
exploration, working more materially, visually and performatively to instantiate and illuminate possibilities?
‘Design and futures’ together offer ecosystemic and embodied approaches to shaping our collective
prospects, informed by a diverse range of practices.
We are excited to have been working with the Journal of Futures Studies over several years to bring readers
a special double issue dedicated to ‘Design and Futures’.
In this first issue, Vol. I, we have five peer-reviewed articles: Stuart Candy and Kelly Kornet introduce a
new framework engaging communities and individuals in tangible forms of speculation. Ramia Mazé argues
for the significance of how political dimensions suffuse futures thought. Cher Potter, DK Osseo-Asare and
Mugendi M’Rithaa analyse the worldviews embedded in a makerspace platform in Accra, Ghana. Jake Dunagan
offers an account of teaching experiential futures, written in collaboration with a whole class of graduate
students. Anne Burdick shows how a multilayered experiment around developing a storyworld, characters,
prototypes, and plot, delineates a rich design space scaffolded by a simultaneously narrative, conceptual, and
material brief.
Powerful shorter contributions by speculative designers James Auger and Julian Hanna, design futurist
Anab Jain, Hollywood worldbuilder Alex McDowell, architect Liam Young, design scholar Jamer Hunt, and
Journal of Futures Studies, March 2019, 23(3): 1–2