Social Dreaming
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EXPOSITION: "A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place" - John Rawls
“It’s hard to say what today’s dreams are; it seems they have been downgraded to hopes – hope that we will not allow ourselves to become extinct, hope that we can feed the starving, hope that there will be room for us on this tiny planet. There are no more visions. We don’t know how to fix our planet and ensure our survival. We are just hopeful (...). Alternatives are what we need. We need to dream new dreams for the 21st century as those of the 20th century fade. But what role can design play?” - Dunne & Raby, Speculative Everything
Social dreaming "is an opportunity to share one's dream with others in a Matrix. The focus is on the dream and not the individual dreamer...The meaning of the dream develops through the use of free association and amplification to give form to echoes of thinking and the shared social environment" - John Clare and Ali Zarbafi from "Social dreaming in the 21st century, the world we are losing"
Social Dreaming is built upon five core insights/principles:
The emerging future is the starting point for meaningful change
Meaning-making is the social/emotional process behind learning, interaction and engagement
Social agency should include iterations of action and critical reflection
We learn in different ways
For engaging with accelerated social change, teachers, students, makers and users will be required to re-frame their role.
Inspired by "Social Dreaming: From Inquiry to Insight" a thesis project by Ricardo Dutra Goncalves
ACTION: Implement brainstorming strategies, such as , , or other techniques that you generally use in your creative practice to focus on an aspect of our present and emerging future where you feel meaningful change can and should be applied. Be specific about the implementation of hybrid/mixed reality platforms in addressing the social dream you are envisioning. *This can be related to .
Be prepared to speak for a maximum of 7 minutes about the work you are sharing. This means you need to have your thoughts formulated, so that you can speak clearly and concisely about your social dreaming assignment. COPY all of your materials for this assignment into your class google drive folder.