Designing Futures Speculation, Critique, Innovation

by Groß, Benedikt; Mandir, Eileen

• ISBN13: 9781529435054
• ISBN10: 1529435056
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-09-17
• Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Summary

Design Futuring is a young field of activity where designers and other creatives sketch and experiment with different (desirable) futures, making them comprehensible. In this highly illustrated volume, authors Eileen Mandir and Benedikt Groß present methods and tools that enable practitioners to design far more than surfaces and interfaces. These are methods and tools that not only anticipate possible futures but, in the best-case scenario, will enable them to be designers of a better world.

Complete with projects from designers and innovation hubs throughout the world: from a global seed vaults in Norway and renewable energy lab in the UAE, to a brand creating clothes that grow as your child grows in France and grass covered automobiles in Germany.

Author Biography

Benedikt Groß is an antidisciplinary designer. Working at the intersection of people, technology and futures somewhere within the Bermuda of Design Futuring, Generative Design and Data. He is Professor of Interaction & Strategic Design at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd and is co-directing there the chapter of Gestaltung.ai, a research project funded by the BMBF that focuses on AI in design education.

Eileen Mandir combines her experiences in design, engineering and coaching to create discourse and change - for people, systems and organizations.

She is Professor for Systemic Design at the Faculty of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Munich.