Design and Futures

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"As Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon famously observed: 'Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.' Designers and futurists, it turns out, have a great deal in common. This mutual recognition is reaching critical mass as each comes to appreciate how their respective traditions have much to offer to making urgent change in the world, and even more so, together." – From the Editors' Introduction DESIGN AND FUTURES is a landmark collection of essays, manifestos and peer-reviewed articles, edited by Stuart Candy (Carnegie Mellon University) and Cher Potter (Victoria and Albert Museum), documenting 'design futures' discourse and practice around the world. Originally appearing in back-to-back issues of the open access Journal of Futures Studies (Tamkang University Press, Taiwan), the present compilation preserves the original formatting while unifying all 30 pieces between covers for the first time. Topics range from worldbuilding and curriculum design to temporality and decolonisation, as well as new methods and processes that build on over a decade of experiential futures, speculative design and related practices. DESIGN AND FUTURES will be an essential reference for anyone working or studying in either field. DESIGN AND FUTURES, Volume I • Editors’ Introduction (Vol. I) Stuart CANDY (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) and Cher POTTER (University of the Arts London; Victoria and Albert Museum, UK) ARTICLES • Turning Foresight Inside Out: An Introduction to Ethnographic Experiential Futures Stuart CANDY (CMU, USA) and Kelly KORNET (Kalypso, Canada) • Politics of Designing Visions of the Future Ramia MAZÉ (Aalto University, Finland) • Crafting Spaces Between Design and Futures: The Case of the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform Cher POTTER (UAL; V&A Museum, UK), DK OSSEO-ASARE (Pennsylvania State University, USA), and Mugendi K. M’RITHAA (Independent Designer-Researcher, Kenya) • Strategic Foresight Studio: A First-Hand Account of an Experiential Futures Course Jake DUNAGAN (Institute for the Future, USA), Alida DRAUDT (Strategic Foresight Partners LLC, USA), JJ HADLEY (Slalom, USA), Ryan HOGAN (Mozilla, USA), Leticia MURRAY (Gensler, USA), Gregory STOCK (Firefly, USA), and Julia Rose WEST (Ancestry, USA) • Designing Futures From the Inside Anne BURDICK (Art Center College of Design, USA; University of Technology Sydney, Australia) ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS • How the Future Happens James AUGER and Julian HANNA (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal) • Critical Activism Anab JAIN (Superflux, UK; University of Applied Arts, Austria) and Stuart Candy (CMU, USA) • Storytelling Shapes the Future Alex MCDOWELL (University of Southern California, USA) • I Design Worlds Liam YOUNG (SCI-Arc, USA) and Stuart CANDY (CMU, USA) • Anticipating Future System States Jamer HUNT (The New School, USA) • A Manifesto for Decolonising Design Decolonising Design Collective: Danah ABDULLA (Brunel University, UK), Ahmed ANSARI (CMU, USA), Ece CANLI (Independent Scholar, Portugal), Mahmoud KESHAVARZ (Uppsala University, Sweden), Matthew KIEM (Independent Scholar, Australia), Pedro OLIVEIRA (Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany), Luiza PRADO (MeetFactory, Czech Republic), and Tristan SCHULTZ (Griffith University, Australia) DESIGN AND FUTURES, Volume II • Editors’ Introduction (Vol. II) Stuart CANDY (CMU, USA) and Cher POTTER (UAL; V&A Museum, UK) ARTICLES • Destinations for Polyamorous Futures and Their MAD Lovers Maya VAN LEEMPUT (Erasmus University College, Belgium) • Worldbuilding in Science Fiction, Foresight and Design Leah ZAIDI (Independent Scholar, Canada) • SPACECRAFT: A Southern Interventionist Art Project Ralph BORLAND (Independent Artist and Curator, South Africa) • Are We (Really) Designing Futures? The Design of Tomorrow Program at CENTRO Karla PANIAGUA (CENTRO Advanced Design Institute, Mexico) • A Futures-Design-Process Model for Participatory Futures Stefanie A. OLLENBURG (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) • Imagining 2060: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of University Students’ Perspectives Jeanne HOFFMAN (Tamkang University, Taiwan) • Transforming Environmental Values for a Younger Generation in Taiwan: A Participatory Action Approach to Curriculum Design Kuo-Hua CHEN (Tamkang University, Taiwan) ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS • You Never Know How the Past Will Turn Out Timothy MORTON (Rice University, USA) • Design in the Future Paola ANTONELLI (Museum of Modern Art, USA) and Cher POTTER (UAL; V&A Museum, UK) • Making Things Physical Maja KUZMANOVIC (FoAM, Belgium), Tina AUER (Time’s Up, Austria), Nik Gaffney (FoAM, Belgium), and Tim BOYKETT (Time’s Up, Austria) • Napkin Futures: Fragments of Future Worlds Nik BAERTEN (Pantopicon, Belgium) • Change the Model Dan HILL (Vinnova, Sweden) and Stuart CANDY (CMU, USA) • What If There Were More Policy Futures Studios? Lucy KIMBELL (UAL, UK) • Your Move: Lessons Learned at the Interstices of Design, Gaming, and Futures Aaron ROSA (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Germany) and John A. SWEENEY (Narxoz University, Kazakhstan) • Using the Future at NASA David DELGADO (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA) and Stuart CANDY (CMU, USA) • Post-Island Futures: Designing for Uncertainty in a Changing Climate Lizzie YARINA (MIT Urban Risk Lab, USA) • Starting at the End: A Journey in Time Tony FRY (University of Tasmania, Australia)