Designing Products of the Future
What Will We Do in This Course?
A course by Cecilia Tham , Designer, Maker, Entrepreneur, and Future Synthesist
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: What Will We Do in This Course?
Overview
“Let's get ready for our course. In this lesson we will take a look at what we will be learning. We're going to go through the different steps of synthesizing futures playbook. We'll also look at inclusive features, or, as we call it, pluralistic features that we can learn from different peoples, throughout history, and around the world. And finally some pointers before we begin.”
In this video lesson Cecilia Tham addresses the topic: What Will We Do in This Course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing Products of the Future. Learn to research and design dynamic and problem-solving products for a better future.
Partial transcription of the video
“What Will We Do in This Course? In this lesson I'll talk about what we'll do in this Domestika course and introduce you to the main components of synthesizing future, which is what we do at Futurity Studio. We'll go through the entire process, from start to finish, along with a workbook with step-by-step instructions you can follow along. You'll finish this course with a design of a future artifact as well as a well-documented process you can show to your friends, your family, even your nemesis. We will be creating four things, a map, a story, an object and a plan. Throughout this course I ...”
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Course summary for: Designing Products of the Future
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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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