Designing Products of the Future
Roadmap and Routes
A course by Cecilia Tham , Designer, Maker, Entrepreneur, and Future Synthesist
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: Roadmap and Routes
Overview
“Finally, we bring our object back to today, as if through a time warp. In this lesson, you'll understand backcasting and how it's similar to and different from forecasting in reverse. This technique is key to building roadmaps to the future – knowing what to do in what order to achieve the future you want.”
In this video lesson Cecilia Tham addresses the topic: Roadmap and Routes, 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
“Roadmap & Routes Now that we've finished the prototyping lessons, we're gonna move forward and learn about backcasting. It's a technique that you can use to compliment trend analysis and probable futures. It's pretty much exactly what it sounds like, it's just forecasting but backwards. Instead of starting from the present state and projecting into the future, in backcasting, you will start from the future state and work backwards and opposite. We use backcasting as a technique to build roadmaps, filling in the intermediary steps between now and that particular future state that you'd l...”
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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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