🤖Future Dystopia Utopia Project

Fall 2019 • Carla Gannis • Mondays and Wednesdays • 4:30 – 6:20pm • 370J Rm 312

Imagine our civilization at least 20 years from now. Things have either collapsed beyond repair or life has become a harmonious dream. Through some crazy combination of wormholes and string theory, you have the opportunity to create a piece of information that will be sent back to the current population.

• What does your imagined future look, sound, and feel like? (your framing story)

• What message would you transmit to the current population from the future?

• You will brainstorm, research, sketch, map, design, and build physical prototypes of an object(s) from your imagined future.

• You will deliver your message in any final medium(s) you choose. The only requirement is that it includes image(s), physical or virtual model(s), or video(s) of your proto-typed physical object(s).

REVIEW: CHAPTER 06 SPECULATIVE DESIGN

I suggest brainstorming one or more of the following themes to get you started, but you will need to eventually drill down from these very broad themes to specificity:

• Animals

• Commerce

• Education

• Engineering

• Ethics

• Information

• Materiality

• Media: Moving Image, Photography, Painting, Print, Sound, etc.

• Memory

• Nature

• Networks

• Ruins

• Science

• Sexuality

• Systems

• The Object

• Technology

• Time