Introduction to Future Design: Anticipate Tomorrow

What if...?

A course by Stef Silva , Designer and Cultural Researcher

Designer and Cultural Researcher. Madrid, Spain.
Joined March 2021
99% positive reviews (124)
2,764 students
Audio: Spanish
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About the video: What if...?

Overview

“Next, I am going to explain you the archetypes of the future of Jim Dator. These help us understand and categorize the characteristics of each future scenario.”

In this video lesson Stef Silva addresses the topic: What if...?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Future Design: Anticipate Tomorrow. Learn to design innovative, long-term solutions and generate positive changes in society by anticipating future scenarios.

Partial transcription of the video

“What if...? As you will have seen in the previous lesson, a futures wheel is a system of situations or characteristics that describe the long term. If you had to say what image comes to mind after having done the previous work, you could say that a quite positive world has emerged, a world that looks a lot like now, it may be something negative and even dystopian. According to what each archetype describes, it can be categorized in some of the archetypes that Jim Dator created. Jim Dator is a very influential prospectivist and very important in future studies. Dator developed this theory to...”

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Course summary for: Introduction to Future Design: Anticipate Tomorrow

  • Level: Beginner
  • 99% positive reviews (124)
  • 2764 students
  • 4 units
  • 11 lessons (1h 18m)
  • 5 downloads
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    Design, Marketing & Business
  • Areas

    Creative Consulting, Creativity, Design, Design Management, Information Design

Stef Silva

Stef Silva
A course by Stef Silva

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Designer and Cultural Researcher

Founder and creative director of Invisible, Stef Silva is a designer and cultural researcher. Her work consists of reflecting on the consequences that business and design have on society and nature. She collaborates with organizations by proposing narratives, identities, and innovative solutions.

Before starting her own business, she formed a key part of leading innovation agencies in Spain, combining this work with teaching at various universities and educational centers in the field of design. In 2021, she was named one of the 40 most important futurists in Spain by Forbes Magazine. She has also organized the international PrimerEU19 event on future thinking and participated in Speculative Futures Madrid for several years.


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Introduction to Future Design: Anticipate Tomorrow. Design, Marketing, and Business course by Stef Silva

Introduction to Future Design: Anticipate Tomorrow

A course by Stef Silva
Designer and Cultural Researcher. Madrid, Spain.
Joined March 2021
  • 99% positive reviews (124)
  • 2,764 students