Speculative Future

Question 1

What is speculative design?

Answer 1

Is a design method addressing big societal problems and looking towards the future—and creating products and services for those scenarios.

Asks us to zoom out beyond user-centered design and ask what the effects of our designs could be on future societies. It’s concerned with possibilities, not probabilities, pushing us to consider our preferences over a set of possible futures and the ways in which the objects we design help or hinder our attempts to build those futures.

Question 2

What is speculative design sometimes called?

Answer 2

critical design or design fiction

Question 3

What does speculative design thrive on?

Answer 3

Imagination and aims to open up new perspectives on what are sometimes called wicked problems.

Question 4

What question should you ask yourself when you’re a speculative designer?

Answer 4

How can we address future challenges with design?

• How should design impact the entire world.
• How can we design for a healthier ecosystem
• What can we do to influence cultures?
• How can future technologies impact our products and services- and vice versa?
• What don’t we want to see from the future?

Question 5

Speculative design broadens the scope and tries to tackle the biggest issues in _____.

Answer 5

society

Question 6

Speculative design tries to imagine what it would be like to design without the current limitations of…

Answer 6

technology, culture, and politics in mind.

Question 7

What are the four taxonomy of futures?

Answer 7

1. Possible
2. Plausible
3. Probable
4. Preferable