speculative design and experiential futures

Speculative designand

experiential futuresStuart Candy, Ph.D | @futuryst

Director of the Situation Lab | @sitlabAsst Prof, Faculty of Design, OCAD University | @OCAD

Stanford dSchool1 May 2014

“Always design a thingby considering it

in its next larger context – a chair in a room,a room in a house,

a house in an environment,an environment in a city plan.”- Eliel Saarinen (1873-1950)

Source: Candy 2014, based on Wendy Schultz /Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies

planning

admin/ops

foresight

TIME

SCOPE

PARTICIPATION

What’s should happen in orgs: Planning for alternative futures

‘Outside in’ thinking; foresight informing

action today

Source: Candy 2014, based on Wendy Schultz /Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies

TIME

SCOPE

PARTICIPATION

What usually happens in orgs: Planning for the present

planning

admin/ops

(foresight?)‘Inside-out’

thinking; extrapolation of

the present

Source: Candy 2014, based on Wendy Schultz /Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies

TIME

SCOPE

PARTICIPATION

How design should work: informed by experimentation from both sides

‘Inside-out’ thinking and ‘outside in’

simultaneously design

making

foresight

the present moment

time

Chess:

After one player moves: 20After 1 move each: 400After 2 moves each: 72,084 After 3 moves each: 9,000,000+After 4 moves each: 288,000,000,000+

Source: Candy 2010Based on Hancock & Bezold, 1994

Setting

Story

Situation

Arc

Terrain

Object

Arc

Terrain

Object

Mood

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