Class Design Futures I

Design Futures I addresses the field of study of the same name, which has gained strong recognition within the design discipline, positioning itself as a decisive factor in the development of visions, strategies, and the materialisation of preferable realities—personal, disciplinary, and social. This course also exposes students to a broad spectrum of technologies applied to design practice, with particular emphasis on digital dimensions, but also on analogue opportunities. Crucially, Design Futures I adopts an interdisciplinary stance, equipping students with a set of design methods and strategies that enable them to approach design practice through multiple lenses in a discipline undergoing constant transitions.

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— Introduction to the field of Design Futures, central bibliographic references (collective reading groups). — The politics of future visions, futures lenses, and the futures cone (Joseph Voros). — Technology and technique in design. — Introduction to JavaScript, CSS, and front-end development. — Development of individual and collective projects.

Methods that simultaneously articulate technological tools separated by a broad temporal span (30–100 years). A wide spectrum of projections and future possibilities for the practice of the discipline through interdisciplinarity and the questioning of systems of thought.

Costanza-Chock, Sasha. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. Information Policy. Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 2020. Escobar, Arturo. Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2020. Fry, T. (2020) Defuturing: A New Design Philosophy. Bloomsbury. Krenak, Ailton. Ideas to Postpone the End of the World. Translated by Anthony Doyle. Anansi International, 2020. Mazé, Ramia. “Politics of Designing Visions of the Future.” Journal of Futures Studies 23, no. 3 (March 2019): 23–38.