Designing Products of the Future
Futures Cone: Categorizing Futures
A course by Cecilia Tham , Designer, Maker, Entrepreneur, and Future Synthesist
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: Futures Cone: Categorizing Futures
Overview
“History shows us that things that seem inevitable often never happen, and things that once seemed impossible happen every day. This lesson will help you rethink the probability of future events in ways that break your own assumptions and help you see strange scenarios more clearly.”
In this video lesson Cecilia Tham addresses the topic: Futures Cone: Categorizing Futures, 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 by now you should have already built your futures wheel and you're ready for your next lesson, which is the futures cone. This is the last step in your mapping exercise, and it will help you visualize your exploration along a timeline. you should have already identified a future that you want to build and you have explored the positive and negative consequences around that particular future space. Now our next step is to connect these different dots and bring it back to our current state, which is now. And place them from which to start our journey of exploration. So the tool we will use...”
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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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