web services covers therapy overview (via Rétrofuturs (Hulk4598) / Stéphane Massa-Bidal)

BBC – Archive – Tomorrow’s World

Dragon Stop Motion

cityofsound: Teaching and drawing Urban Sensing

Back To The Futures on VHS Tape

“These sorts of things should be required viewing for anyone who gets into the racket of trying to communicate their vision of possible near futures. Observing tried techniques for expression of sometimes tricky ideas is a quite useful approach to the communication craft. Talking heads combined with described scenarios? Or acted scenarios? Do you show the technology in its prototype form? Or do some visual special effects to make it seem as though it is working? What kind of people? What fields of trade? Business people? Cops? Etc.”

Tomorrow’s World: A Day in your Tomorrow (via moleitau)

In this symposium we will hear stories from such foreign fields as gaming, film, comics, animation, literature and art. These speculative practitioners present alternative models as test sites for the deployment of the wondrous possibilities or dark cautionary tales of our own architectural imaginings. (via AA School Website )

What Schulze says is that design has invent, to create new ways of doing things, and to contribute to culture. (via Slide 4 of 44 (Scope at reboot11, Matt Webb, S&W) )

Olinda is the first step of this exploration with home digital radio. A small number of fully functioning prototypes show that it’s possible to design social, Web-like experiences using industry standard DAB chip-sets, and conventional manufacturing techniques. We hope this project provokes as many thoughts for you as it has done for us

Olinda (Schulze & Webb)

Nokia remade offers a realistic and beautiful interpretation of upcycling and a tangible starting point for discussion.

Growth Assembly by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg

Homes of the future will have rooms akin to this illustration into which a user can immerse all sensory apparatuses. (via Paleo-Future – Paleo-Future Blog – Media Room of the Future (1979))

Paleo-Future: Pacific Bell Concept Video (Part 1, 1991)

Article on Apple concept designs from Japanese magazine “Axis” – Autum 1991 (from zacislost)

Philips ‘Vision of the future’ (via Ti.mo)

Microsoft’s Vision For the Future (2019)

“Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information. Beautiful Evidence is about how seeing turns into showing.”

Edward Tufte: Books – Beautiful Evidence

Beautiful evidence

Future of Money by chriswoebken

Design Simulation.

Use of Photographic and Electronic Media in Design and Presentation.

(via Ti.mo)

The SunCat Batteries – DIY prototype

Good evidencing from Knut.

Futuristic Movie Timeline (via danmeth)

Business 2.0: 5 hot products for the future

“In summer 2003, Tester tried a different tack that became known as “artifacts from the future”: mocked-up products claiming to be from, say, 2009. You might go to an IFTF presentation and see baskets of finessed fruit that promise cognitive enhancement. Or you might wake up in the hotel where the IFTF seminar was being held to find your newspaper dated 10 years hence.”

Artifacts from the Future “For years, Wired magazine has tapped a bevy of designers and artists in the tech field to craft detailed visions of futuristic objects for a monthly showcase at the close of each issue.”

Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction

“this is a bit of a think-piece, with examples and some insights that provide a few conclusions about why this is important as well as how it gets done. how do you entangle design, science, fact and fiction in order to create this practice called “design fiction” that, hopefully, provides different, undisciplined ways of envisioning new kinds of environments, artifacts and practices.”

Flooded London by Squint/Opera

Dunne and Raby – Evidence Dolls (via a huge set of images from the Critical Design exhibition from we-make-money-not-art)

Boelen’s idea for the exhibition stemmed from a disappointment: when the work of Guixé, Bey or Raby & Dunne is featured in a design magazine, journalists usually focus on the gadget, gimmick side of the pieces. They pick out catchy works but tend to ignore the global vision of the designers. There’s also an international crowd out there that merely seem to imitate that gimmicky aspect of the critical designers’ work. (via Designing Critical Design – Part 1: Jurgen Bey – we make money not art )

It is a book of “design fictions.” By deliberately creating objects that cannot exist — because the material is not yet available, or the business plan, or the manufacturing process, or the infra- structure to support it, or even the human sensibility — it becomes possible to explore the meaning of design at a more profound level and to think more richly about what is and what might be. (via Design Fiction :: Book)