Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files==== Visualising The Invisible - Feedback ==== (From our discussion on the [[visualising_the_invisible|workshop]]) Meditate on how our scenarios were not “mere” fiction, but rather, were speculative, or, How to keep the future **REAL**: - five years is a realistic time frame - built on our own values, what matters to us (we chose our change drivers) - based on real pasts, real traumas, real disasters, real memories, real wars – all echoes of the past (carried into the future) - takes up the present problem of “fitting in” or “belonging,” the relation of the individual to the collective - echoed our current issues and concerns (do we recognize our present in this future?) - continuity: not big changes, but exaggerations, intensifications, vectors, or directions from the present to future; smoothness - the lenses through which we think are the same: political, social, economic, historical, cultural - many of our assumptions, hierarchies, and freedoms stayed the same in the future - the need to feel, experience, enact, role-play, walk up to the future (ladder) from here - utilized many of the same basic stories, mythologies - our relationship to other people still defined who we are - maintaining an ethical connection to that future was important for speculating What tools and strategies did we gain for visualizing? - using steps - keeping it small; make larger things into smaller pieces - examine our concepts (make them smaller too); figure out what they mean to us (e.g., sustainable, bio-diverse) - collaboration, multiple perspectives - improvisation, enactment, feeling - recognize our presumptions (we can do this by reflecting on the first emotional reaction: it will reveal what we value) - constraints help (e.g., time, conceptual, climate, structure, resources). Too much freedom isn’t helpful. - multiple sessions (revisiting differently each time) - organized reflection time What would I add to these? What is my personal take-away? - I can consider what in the process can be loose, but where things need to be really clear (change drivers!) - Collectively, we made somewhat arbitrary choices for change drivers; individually, they will be more clear and defined. - In order to connect myself to the future, I will write more. - Feel how it feels (role-playing). How do you see yourself using these in your project, this course, or more broadly? - The interview process: when I hear myself echoed back through another person (the interviewer), I am changed by their story. This effect of our combined thoughts is productive. - In urban planning, we are always trying to figure out what it is we didn’t know we knew. These strategies will help us find these. - I now have the means to visualize a real present that I am not a part of. - In my final project on graffiti, I can use the notion of change drivers to think through the relation of government funding of art and graffiti as a “disrespected” art. - I can visualize the future impact of a given design, and loop that back into its production. - In civil engineering, we are always looking to the future, to find the problems you didn’t even know you had; these strategies for visualizing definitely help with that! Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International future_fabulators/visualizing_the_invisible_feedback.1405500348.txt.gz Last modified: 2014-07-16 08:45by nik