Designing Products of the Future
Course final project
A course by Cecilia Tham , Designer, Maker, Entrepreneur, and Future Synthesist
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the final project for: Designing Products of the Future
Designing Products of the Future
“I hope by now you have had a chance to try the process from start to finish, filled the workbook and managed to sketch, design or even prototype your future artifact. A little recap of what we have done and the steps to follow before I go. First of all, I have introduced you to key aspects of Future Synthesizingin in order to better understand what it means to create for the Future(s). We then defined a starting point and a goal in order to map what the future might look like and what items will be needed. Once you have come up with a few ideas, choose your favourite and take a closer look at the scenario, the target and the features your future artifact will need to have. Lastly it's time to do some backcasting, i. e., analyze what needs to happen in 20 years, 10 years or 1 year so your artifact becomes a future reality! So give yourself a pat on the back; you haven't realized it yet, but the first starting point was actually you deciding to take this Domestika course. By the way, these tools aren’t just for designing future artifacts, you can use them to help you navigate any uncertainties! Collaborate, think beyond humans, be imaginative, keep learning and always always always challenge your own assumptions. Don´t forget to share your designs, artifacts, drawings and reach out to other colleagues and students. See you in the forum!
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“Welcome to the last lesson of this Domestika course, Synthesizing Futures. I hope by now that you have had a chance to try out the process, follow the workbook, manage to design your future artifact, and even met some of your fellow students along the way. Can't wait to see what you have created and shared. In this course, I have walked through the four basic steps that we used at Futurity Studio. From a starting point, we mapped out the future space with a future wheel, and then we extrapolated the map into a timeline in our future cone. With our insights, we built our future world, decide...”
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Course summary for: Designing Products of the Future
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Design, Marketing & Business -
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Design, Design Management, Industrial Design, Information Design, Product Design
Cecilia Tham
A course by Cecilia Tham
As an industry leader, Cecilia MoSze Tham is founder and director of Futurity Studio, an innovative future-focused research and design studio. She was a Senior Social Technologist at Alpha Telefonica. She has founded multiple companies such as MOB: Makers of Barcelona; FabCafe, a café that combines technology, workshops, and coffee; and Allwomen.tech, the first A.I. training campus for women.
Cecilia is the recipient of numerous awards such as the Faculty Design Award by Harvard University and Creative Entrepreneur of the Year by Creative Net. Cecilia has given talks at World Mobile Congress, Smart City Expo, IAM Fest, SHIFT Open FAD, and 4YFN, as well as four TEDx talks. She was a regular contributor to the newspaper L’Econòmic and La Roca Gallery. Cecilia participated at the Singularity University Global Solution Program for climate change at NASA Ames and she is currently an advisor for United Nation World Food Program X.
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