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Futures Studies for Design Systems and Social Transformation from Time/Space-Based Perspectives
Analyses of disciplines encompassing futures studies reveal a prevailing tendency to perceive time as a linear sequence of projections. However, this perspective is not applicable to the current context of social transformation in the age of ...
Anna Barbara, Yuemei Ma
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Roots of Design Futures in art, architecture, and design [PDF]
Design Futures is herewith proposed and discussed as a conceptualization of existing methodological streams in corporate design history, in the analysis of Italian Design Districts, and in other creative industry fields, inspiring a fundamental tension ...
Marco Bevolo
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The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected various aspects of daily life, particularly the supply and demand of essential goods, resulting in critical shortages. This included personal protective equipment for medical professionals and the general public.
H. Felton +7 more
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Plant root growth can be altered by introducing obstacles in the path of growth. This principle is used in design to produce planar grid structures composed of interweaving roots.
Israel A. Carrete +3 more
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Biomimicry education is grounded in a set of natural design principles common to every known lifeform on Earth. These Life’s Principles (LPs) (cc Biomimicry 3.8), provide guidelines for emulating sustainable strategies that are field-tested over nearly ...
Laura Lee Stevens +4 more
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Concept Cars as Vehicles for Change in SMEs
Making prototypes of fictitious artifacts has long been applied in corporations as a design-led way to envisioning the future. These techniques make use of design to explore speculative futures translating abstract questions into concrete objects and ...
Javier Ricardo Mejía Sarmiento +3 more
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A Fragile and Strange Loop on the Exhibition Cómo Diseñar una Revolución: la Vía Chilena al Diseño [PDF]
There isn’t a single way to evoke the past nor a sole purpose in bringing it into the present. In his critique of the exhibition How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Way to Design (Centro Cultural la Moneda, September 8th to January 28th, 2024 ...
Gonzalo Carrasco
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Project Review: ‘Making Room for Abolition’, by Lauren Williams
This review positions Lauren Williams’ installation ‘Making Room for Abolition’, shown in ‘Monolith’ at Red Bull Arts in Detroit, as a speculative design project that presents a two-fold critique: one directed at US society and the other, at speculative
Aggie Toppins
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Social Design Dreaming: Everyday Speculations for Social Change
Racial justice activists tend to turn to science fiction to imagine better, freer worlds. Speculative futures in design are rarely fantasy-based. Design speculation relies more on unfamiliarity and exaggeration than fantasy to challenge assumptions and ...
Hillary Carey
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Recently, multi-channel flat heat pipes have been developed to improve the heat recovery from flat surfaces, such as solar panels and batteries. In this paper, the thermal performance of a multi-channel flat heat pipe is experimentally investigated and ...
Valentin Guichet +2 more
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