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future_fabulators:visualising_the_invisible [2014-07-16 10:14] majafuture_fabulators:visualising_the_invisible [2014-07-16 10:48] maja
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 ==== Visualising The Invisible ==== ==== Visualising The Invisible ====
  
-{{>https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/14651583942/in/set-72157645683623095}} \\+Design today deals with many complex systems, including politics, economy, society, technology and the environmentVery often design is seen as a means for problem solvingHowever, 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, expectations, different perspectives and the trap of prediction). 
  
 +This workshop aims to explore the future problematics of visualizing the invisible, using scenario building and pre-enactments.
  
-=== Framing ===+{{>https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/14651583942/in/set-72157645683623095}} \\
  
-By Adam Nocek and Maja Kuzmanovic 
  
-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, expectations, different perspectives and the trap of prediction. +=== Framing ===
  
 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, and about creating sufficient distance from the present to be able to look at our current situation for different vantage points of probable, possible and preferred futures.  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, and about creating sufficient distance from the present to be able to look at our current situation for different vantage points of probable, possible and preferred futures. 
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   * An accurate prediction of the future   * An accurate prediction of the future
   * Deep and considered discussions and analysis of the details of the future.   * Deep and considered discussions and analysis of the details of the future.
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 === Core question === === Core question ===
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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. 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 === === Change Drivers ===
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   * Exploration of space   * Exploration of space
   * Terraforming   * Terraforming
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 === Critical Uncertainties === === Critical Uncertainties ===
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   * Closed system totalitarianism <-> Radical openness   * Closed system totalitarianism <-> Radical openness
  
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 === Scenarios === === Scenarios ===
   * [[Franco]]: Radical openness and unsustainable homogenization. Everything is visualized and shared, but unseen due to massive 'filter failure'. There is an illusion of choice, when in effect everything is the same. Economic profit and cost efficiency are shared and visualized. Every individual is so visible that they become invisible and the value of their achievements are ignored. Excess, resource depletion, greed and jealousy are kept invisible.    * [[Franco]]: Radical openness and unsustainable homogenization. Everything is visualized and shared, but unseen due to massive 'filter failure'. There is an illusion of choice, when in effect everything is the same. Economic profit and cost efficiency are shared and visualized. Every individual is so visible that they become invisible and the value of their achievements are ignored. Excess, resource depletion, greed and jealousy are kept invisible. 
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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   * [[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.   * [[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's efforts to create sustainable, biodiverse biotopes is visualized and made as apparent as possible. What remains invisible is the regime's interdependency with the environment and society, as well as non-scientific creativity and problematic (intentional) mutation.   * [[hal2020]]: Closed system totalitarianism and sustainable biodiversity. Government's efforts to create sustainable, biodiverse biotopes is visualized and made as apparent as possible. What remains invisible is the regime's interdependency with the environment and society, as well as non-scientific creativity and problematic (intentional) mutation.
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 More detailed scenario descriptions can be found on the four scenario pages. 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 === === Reflection ===
-some [[visualising_the_invisible_feedback|feedback]] from the participants+ 
 +Some [[visualising_the_invisible_feedback|reflections]] from the participants
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 +=== Process === 
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 +A step by step [[visualising_the_invisible_process|process]] of the workshop. 
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