Designing Products of the Future
Starting Point and Goal
A course by Cecilia Tham , Designer, Maker, Entrepreneur, and Future Synthesist
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: Starting Point and Goal
Overview
“Mapping your future space is about gathering inspiration and ideas for what could happen – good, bad; expected, astonishing. Futures emerge from the present, so you will begin by identifying and analyzing things around you today: news, trends, science fiction, conflicts, leaders, and more. You will use their interplay to create a starting point, a seed for the actions and artifacts you will build in future steps.”
In this video lesson Cecilia Tham addresses the topic: Starting Point and Goal, 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
“So let's get started with your very first synthesizing future exercise. In this lesson, we're going to talk about mapping. Like any other maps, it is a way for you to see where you want to go and where your starting point is. A lot of times we think about future and we think about time and space. We stand where we are now as present. What is in front of us is the future and what is behind us in the past. And so creating a map of where you are and where you are heading is the very first exercise in trying to map out your future. And so the starting point, your future, this future project tha...”
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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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