futurebabble.blog

futurebabble.blog

Semi-regular streams of design / fiction consciousness

Speculative Design Frameworks

A diagram illustrating evidence collection through signal scanning and sub-conscious observations, leading to various creative processes such as concept visualization, trend analysis, artifact prototyping, scenario creation, and science fiction film-making.

📜 A Manifesto for Speculative Design
In use since January 2024

A black poster with white and blue text displaying a template for a quote about the future, dated January 14, 2021, from Rotterdam, titled 'In a World Where...'. The template reads: 'In a world where [insert provocation] people [insert what people do in response]', with an explanation about setting the status quo and rules of the world. The bottom includes the creator's name Viraj Joshi and the website future-postcards.com.

📜 “In a world where” framework 
In use since September 2020

Comparison chart contrasting 'Design Fiction' and 'Design Futures' with key points and ideological differences. Titles include 'Design Fiction' and 'Design Futures,' with a header indicating 'Nov 2021'. Blue text at the bottom emphasizes themes like 'Change us to suit the world,' 'For provocation,' 'Research through design,' and their counterparts focusing on innovation, research for design, and changing the world to suit us.

📜 Design Fiction and Design Futures
In use since November 2021

📜 Whose Preferred Future Is This? On Possibility, Potential, and Plurality in Visions of the Future - April 2024

📜 Should we stop dreaming of Androids who Dream of Electric Sheep - March 2023

📜 Speculating ‘Metaverse’ interactions - April 2022

📜 Making up Design Fiction: An Express Method - August 2021

📜 World-building methods for Speculative Design and Fiction - February 2021

📜 What Animal Crossing taught me about Data and Interaction Design - January 2021

📜 Building Future Worlds for Science Fiction - September 2020

Short Speculative Fiction

📚 Anomaly in the Rhythm - Written 2018, Published 2022

📚 Our absolute last hope is absolute - Written 2023, Published 2024

🍿 The Utopia Compass - 2020

🍿 The Doohickey - 2020