UNESCO’s futures curriculum
One of us should go through this curriculum… might provide some insight or a useful framework. http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/TLSF/theme_a/mod03/uncom03t03.htm
Futuring
Organizations http://www.iftf.org/ http://www.altfutures.com/ http://www.worldfutures.org/ http://www.wfs.org/ http://www.bis.gov.uk/foresight Futurology: Futurology is a cultural investigation into how representations of the future affect the present. http://futurologyprogramme.org/ Books Cornish E.The study of the future. Washington: World Future Society; Kurian GT, Molitor GTT (editors).Encyclopedia of the future. New York: Macmillan; 1996. Masini E.Why futures studies? Grey Seal Books; 1993. Naisbitt … Read more
Embodiment and Ambient Thinking
From sceptical futurist Stuart Candy: “I want to propose two umbrella terms (brutal pun intended) for ways of looking at things that I find highly interesting playmates: embodiment thinking and ambience thinking. In embodiment thinking, crystallised elements are reopened up as distributed in space and time (a conceptual analogue of the visual technique of the exploded view). The object … Read more
Between Reality and the Impossible
“What happens when you decouple design from the marketplace, when rather than making technology sexy, easy to use and more consumable,designers use the language of design to pose questions, entertain and provoke – to transport our imaginations into parallel but possible worlds ? We are concerned not only with the expressive, functional and communicative possibilities … Read more