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==== Visualising The Invisible ==== | ==== Visualising The Invisible ==== | ||
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+ | Design today deals with many complex systems, including politics, economy, society, technology and the environment. Very often design is seen as a means for problem solving. However, designing in and with complex systems means that many of the solutions generate new problems. So how do we design for thinking about problems, without necessarily dealing falling into the trap of solutionism. When thinking about problems, we can also think about future problematics (assumptions, | ||
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+ | This workshop aims to explore the future problematics of visualizing the invisible, using scenario building and pre-enactments. | ||
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- | some [[visualising_the_invisible_feedback|feedback]] from the participants | ||
- | ====scenarios==== | + | === Framing |
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- | * [[biopentopia]] | + | Foresight and futures studies can be thought of visualisers of the ultimate invisible: the future. Contrary to common belief, foresight is not about predicting the future. It is much more about revealing assumptions and expectations, |
- | * [[geriopolis]] | + | |
- | * [[hal2020]] | + | How are we going to do this? On the first day we begin by identifying a core question, then discuss the present of " |
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+ | The second day we will dig deeper into the hidden and invisible dimensions of scenarios: examining the worldviews, beliefs, myths and (hi)stories that might influence what needs to be visualized. We will go very broad (to the mythical dimensions of civilisation) and then refocus back on the personal and individual experience. We want to do this to bridge the gap between the "big future" | ||
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+ | What might you get out of these two days? | ||
+ | * Insight into your own and other people’s assumptions and behaviours | ||
+ | * A range of different perspectives on your topic of inquiry (visualizing the invisible) | ||
+ | * Experience both fun and tension of co-creation | ||
+ | * Exercise your analytic, synthetic and somatic thinking | ||
+ | * Get to know how you work together under pressure and how it feels to improvise and work with spontaneity, | ||
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+ | You will not get: | ||
+ | * An accurate prediction of the future | ||
+ | * Deep and considered discussions and analysis of the details of the future. | ||
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+ | On the [[visualising_the_invisible_process|process page]] you can find a more detailed description of the flow, questions and techniques used in the workshop. | ||
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+ | === Core question === | ||
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+ | __**How does visualizing the invisible change the way we interact with the world? | ||
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+ | By visualizing we mean " | ||
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+ | === The present situation === | ||
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+ | What do we know? | ||
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+ | We visualize environments, | ||
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+ | What do we presume? | ||
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+ | We presume that "there is an invisible" | ||
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+ | What is unknown? | ||
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+ | We don’t know what is the relationship between belief and visibility and what is it’s link to morality. As such, we don’t know how it can impact the world, what it’s potential outcomes are an what problems might emerge from it. We are not sure which methods and processes are most effective. We don’t know how wide the scope is of visualizing the invisible, and what are its’ boundaries. Finally, we are unsure about the relationship between visualizing and creating a world. | ||
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+ | === Change Drivers === | ||
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+ | Technology: | ||
+ | * Energy, resources and storage | ||
+ | * Communication and media (including the speed of communication) | ||
+ | * Neuroscience | ||
+ | * Obsolescence of jobs | ||
+ | * Trash materials | ||
+ | * AI and robotics | ||
+ | * Medical technologies | ||
+ | * Craft (grassroots emergent technology) | ||
+ | * Surveillance and privacy | ||
+ | * Nano technology | ||
+ | * Politics and ethics in technology | ||
+ | * Biomimicry | ||
+ | * Science and religion | ||
+ | * Overload (of ideas, information and stuff) | ||
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+ | Politics and economy: | ||
+ | * Investment opportunities | ||
+ | * Political conflict | ||
+ | * Perception of terror | ||
+ | * Privacy | ||
+ | * Poverty vs privilege | ||
+ | * Belief in the free market | ||
+ | * Separation of church, state and the market | ||
+ | * Localization | ||
+ | * Scarcity of resources | ||
+ | * Taxation | ||
+ | * Healthcare | ||
+ | * Free market | ||
+ | * Political systems | ||
+ | * Borderless utopia (dystopia) | ||
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+ | Society and culture: | ||
+ | * Selfies | ||
+ | * Evolution of belief systems | ||
+ | * Slow culture | ||
+ | * Dealing with cultural ideals | ||
+ | * Identity, identity politics, identity crisis and sexuality | ||
+ | * Education | ||
+ | * Belief in the technological process | ||
+ | * Biological focus | ||
+ | * Combination of ideas, fields and cultures | ||
+ | * Transnationalism and cultural appropriation | ||
+ | * Arts and the collective aesthetics | ||
+ | * Digital selves (generational gaps) | ||
+ | * Homogenization and globalization | ||
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+ | The environment | ||
+ | * RRR | ||
+ | * Interdependency | ||
+ | * Efficiency | ||
+ | * Fear (of resource depletion) | ||
+ | * Climate change awareness | ||
+ | * Sustainability | ||
+ | * Biodiversity | ||
+ | * Energy (resources and harnessing) | ||
+ | * Health issues and pollution | ||
+ | * Anthropocentric belief systems | ||
+ | * Exploration of space | ||
+ | * Terraforming | ||
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+ | === Critical Uncertainties === | ||
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+ | Most important and uncertain: | ||
+ | * Sustainability and biodiversity | ||
+ | * Radical openness | ||
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+ | Quite important but less uncertain: | ||
+ | * Craft and emerging technologies | ||
+ | * Evolution of belief systems | ||
+ | * Identity and identity politics | ||
+ | * Morality | ||
+ | * Taxation (scarcity and distribution) | ||
+ | * Awareness and education | ||
+ | * Communication and media | ||
+ | * Fear | ||
+ | * Transnationalism | ||
+ | * Poverty vs privilege | ||
+ | * Homogenization and globalization | ||
+ | * Borderless utopia (dystopia) | ||
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+ | === Scenario Axes === | ||
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+ | * Sustainable biodiversity <-> Unsustainable homogenization | ||
+ | * Closed system totalitarianism <-> Radical openness | ||
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+ | === Scenarios | ||
+ | * [[Franco]]: Radical openness and unsustainable homogenization. Everything is visualized and shared, but unseen due to massive ' | ||
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+ | * [[biopentopia]]: Radical openness and sustainable biodiversity. Sharing and diversity is visualized and celebrated. What remains invisible is the edge between the private and the public; also individual desire and cultural identity is flooded under the abundance of diversity | ||
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+ | * [[geriopolis]]: Closed system totalitarianism and unsustainable homogenization. False resilience of this society is abundantly visualized. What remains invisible is its inherent fragility and unsustainability. Also, the individuals are invisible and any dissent is impossible to comprehend. | ||
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+ | * [[hal2020]]: Closed system totalitarianism and sustainable biodiversity. Government' | ||
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+ | More detailed scenario descriptions can be found on the four scenario pages. | ||
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+ | * [[Franco]] | ||
+ | * [[Hal2020]] | ||
+ | * [[Geriopolis]] | ||
+ | * [[Biopentopia]] | ||
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+ | === Appreciative Inquiry === | ||
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+ | From within the scenario, think of a time when visualizing the invisible changed the way you interacted with the world. What did you do, how did you feel, what made it possible? | ||
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+ | Actions, what was visualized: | ||
+ | * Emerging features of society | ||
+ | * Labour conditions and movements | ||
+ | * Social exclusion | ||
+ | * Values of youth | ||
+ | * Collective happiness and what does happiness mean | ||
+ | * History (personal and collective) | ||
+ | * The public sphere | ||
+ | * Moments of reduced activity | ||
+ | * Words | ||
+ | * transfer of consciousness | ||
+ | * archival research | ||
+ | * fertility and birthrates | ||
+ | * lifecycle of materials | ||
+ | * the networks of sharing | ||
+ | * Control | ||
+ | * Craft and emerging technologies | ||
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+ | Sensations, how does visualizing the invisible make you feel? | ||
+ | * Happy, through feelings of freedom and contentedness | ||
+ | * Motivated | ||
+ | * Trusting | ||
+ | * Purposeful | ||
+ | * Strong and beautiful | ||
+ | * Excited | ||
+ | * Calm and peaceful | ||
+ | * Balancing between trust and fear | ||
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+ | Resources, what made it possible to visualize the invisible and change the way you interact with the world? | ||
+ | * Abundance of materials | ||
+ | * Having a blank slate/ a new start and wanting to do it right this tine | ||
+ | * Open sharing of ideas | ||
+ | * Competitive market of ideas and having room to expand | ||
+ | * Capacity for co-operation | ||
+ | * Available technologies | ||
+ | * Utility and necessity of visualization | ||
+ | * Communication | ||
+ | * A benevolent government | ||
+ | * Openness and trust | ||
+ | * A well-educated population | ||
+ | * Filtering what is worth forgetting and what should be the continuity of memory | ||
+ | * Abstracting | ||
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+ | === Reflection === | ||
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+ | Some [[visualising_the_invisible_feedback|reflections]] from the participants. | ||
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