Designing Futures.
Co-Design | Teaching | Strategy | Visual Communication
‘Futuring’ is the process of thinking creatively and critically through time.
Designing Futures allows us to imagine new, alternate, decolonial, equitable, preferable and undesirable scenarios and societies.
Futuring helps to reflect on the past and present, and identify what things we should be rethinking and redesigning to create better futures for all.
Futuring helps to work through complex social and ecological problems.
There are many ways to future. I apply a collaborative Futures-thinking approach to design research projects, and teach the process of Futuring to UTS Design students - selected illustrations below. I am also currently producing a ‘Collaborative Design Futures’ short course.
STEEP analysis - Shakira Wilson, Christina Eastman, Zoe Mcintyre, Ling Zhou
futuring prototype - light mask - Shakira Wilson, Christina Eastman, Zoe Mcintyre, Ling Zhou
futuring prototype - musical wayfinding - Shakira Wilson, Christina Eastman, Zoe Mcintyre, Ling Zhou
futuring concept prototype - green community plan - Samuel Goodhew, Sherry Wang, Gen Meighan, Serena Diep
futuring concept prototype - weather touch - Samuel Goodhew, Sherry Wang, Gen Meighan, Serena Diep
futuring concept storyboard - Samuel Goodhew, Sherry Wang, Gen Meighan, Serena Diep
futuring concept storyboard - energy production interface - Ashley Tan, Dimpal Mkvana, Jia Jia Koh, Lucy Bryant
futuring prototype - community entry gates - Chelsea Cooper, Zachariah Lee, Shen Osaki, Sophia Stefoulis
futuring concept storyboard - Chelsea Cooper, Zachariah Lee, Shen Osaki, Sophia Stefoulis
futuring concept storyboard - Cleo Castle, Olivia James, Peter Griffin, Tachel Tsang
futuring storyboard - national park neighbourhoods - Anqi Fu, Anni Liu, Xinna Guo, Gabrielle Stevens
