Designing Products of the Future
Futures Wheel: Mapping Out Context and Consequences
A course by Cecilia Tham , Designer, Maker, Entrepreneur, and Future Synthesist
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: Futures Wheel: Mapping Out Context and Consequences
Overview
“What are the positive and negative consequences of your seeds for the future? And what consequences will those consequences have? Futures unfold as chains of events, an infinite web of cause and effect. This lesson will teach you how to map these out in a structured way.”
In this video lesson Cecilia Tham addresses the topic: Futures Wheel: Mapping Out Context and Consequences, 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 in this lesson, we're going to learn about the futures wheel, which is basically landscaping from the mapping exercise, taking from the starting point that you have from the previous lesson, we're going to expand out and trying to, honing on the landscape of what you want to explore. So the future is never simple. If you think about, say, the technologies 20 years ago, and you're trying to explain yourself 20 years ago what an iPhone looked like and what impact it might have, you might have a difficulty thinking that far ahead. So even good things have bad effects and negative consequenc...”
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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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