Design Futures

Exploring the Future with

Design

John Boult & Chris Holt

2049
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Many different Simplified Linear So what do we need Beginnings of Teams
tools, no universally Input Model…. to achieve today… and thinking about
accepted model or Project Ideas
process… so we go
S.L.I.M.
 9
Guided Workshops
Covering Group & Individual Project Issues PLUS
External Guest Lectures
 This is a Team Based project
assessed individually via a Log
Book….
 The purpose of
your log will be to
create a ‘real time’
reflection of your
experiences
‘Reflective Log’ working as part of a
team, commenting
on tools, processes,
interactions used….
And then to
critically reflect on
the experience.
‘Reflective Log’
 The Team Assignment

Team challenge is to create a

‘Design Futures Presentation’

‘In the future design will……….’

Working In Teams
 The Individual Assignment

The team working experience &

outcome as a basis for creating an
individual ‘Reflective Log’, which also
incorporates insights gained from the
external expert speakers and others.
The tasks today are to:
Today
Contribute to and analyse the time-line and your
colleagues views, address the two worksheets…

Start thinking about future issues in broad terms

Consider different combinations of teams that you might

work within

Start to explore potential project ideas and teams

Individual Futures Card
The Time Line
Finding my Futures’ Topic
• What topics stood out at the Time Line
event?
• What topics interest my Team Members?
• What problems/opportunities seem to be
‘top of mind’, in my country, elsewhere?
(Trends, Signals, Drivers, Blogs, Media?)
• What issue could design address in my
future?
Analysis / Scoping
Time Line

Use your ‘analysis' of the time

line to speak to people and then
sit with a group of people …
hopefully whose ‘future events’
interested you…
Time Line Teams