Exploring Weak Signals to Design and Prototype for Emergent Futures
While technology and design have progressed greatly, they have also produced imbalances that affect the way we live and work. Additionally, they have also contributed to the use of the planet’s resources to fill our homes with unnecessary devices and objects. We must de-objectify and de-colon...
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Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering
2020-09-01
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While technology and design have progressed greatly, they have also produced imbalances that affect the way we live and work. Additionally, they have also contributed to the use of the planet’s resources to fill our homes with unnecessary devices and objects. We must de-objectify and de-colonise the way we design technologies to make for more inclusive and diverse futures. One way to do that is to recognise our shortcomings and experiment with them in a way that is productive and promotes a more peaceful coexistence among living systems.
This research explores the concept and practice of identifying these shortcomings via the “Atlas of Weak Signals”. The Atlas is a tool for combatting future challenges by actively creating opportunities for design interventions to dissolve the troubling problems of our times. In order to support this claim, we present and analyse a series of projects developed over the course of a master’s programme. Specific emphasis is placed on how the Atlas of Weak Signals was generated between students and faculty as a methodology to better understand the view of the world in which we live today from the one in which we design from. The projects are mapped in relation to emerging trends in both local and global contexts and the interconnections between these trends as generators of design opportunities. To conclude, we present the lessons we learned in the form of a toolkit so other design practitioners, researchers, teachers, and students can generate their own methods and tools.
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| spelling | doaj-art-e81c33913e2e448da83b9594255fa4862025-08-20T03:25:26ZcatElisava Barcelona School of Design and EngineeringTemes de Disseny2604-91552604-60322020-09-0136Exploring Weak Signals to Design and Prototype for Emergent FuturesTomas Diez0Oscar Tomico1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2623-9031Mariana Quintero2IAACElisava Barcelona School of Design and EngineeringIAAC While technology and design have progressed greatly, they have also produced imbalances that affect the way we live and work. Additionally, they have also contributed to the use of the planet’s resources to fill our homes with unnecessary devices and objects. We must de-objectify and de-colonise the way we design technologies to make for more inclusive and diverse futures. One way to do that is to recognise our shortcomings and experiment with them in a way that is productive and promotes a more peaceful coexistence among living systems. This research explores the concept and practice of identifying these shortcomings via the “Atlas of Weak Signals”. The Atlas is a tool for combatting future challenges by actively creating opportunities for design interventions to dissolve the troubling problems of our times. In order to support this claim, we present and analyse a series of projects developed over the course of a master’s programme. Specific emphasis is placed on how the Atlas of Weak Signals was generated between students and faculty as a methodology to better understand the view of the world in which we live today from the one in which we design from. The projects are mapped in relation to emerging trends in both local and global contexts and the interconnections between these trends as generators of design opportunities. To conclude, we present the lessons we learned in the form of a toolkit so other design practitioners, researchers, teachers, and students can generate their own methods and tools. https://192.168.73.126/index.php/Temes/article/view/417803emergent futuresweak signalsdesigning interventionsmaking futuresmaterial speculationfirst person perspective |
| spellingShingle | Tomas Diez Oscar Tomico Mariana Quintero Exploring Weak Signals to Design and Prototype for Emergent Futures Temes de Disseny emergent futures weak signals designing interventions making futures material speculation first person perspective |
| title | Exploring Weak Signals to Design and Prototype for Emergent Futures |
| title_full | Exploring Weak Signals to Design and Prototype for Emergent Futures |
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| title_short | Exploring Weak Signals to Design and Prototype for Emergent Futures |
| title_sort | exploring weak signals to design and prototype for emergent futures |
| topic | emergent futures weak signals designing interventions making futures material speculation first person perspective |
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