Playing with Futures

ECTS-point: 7,5
Fokusområde: Design for Play
Semester: 2.
Kursusansvarlig: Sofie Kinch
Kursusundervisere: Sofie Kinch

Description

Playing with Futures proposes play as a mode of speculating.

Based on critical design and speculative design theory, you challenge the current world and envision alternative futures.

You are introduced to the fields of critical design and speculative design creating prototypes that make us reconsider our current world and the futures we want to design for. The course uses design fiction, explores critical play and the craft of world building to create future scenarios. It approaches play as a design process, diving into more unruly modes of creation were imagination and provocation have a key role. The outcome is a tangible mode of reflection that has democratic value.

Course descriptions Design for Play

Project examples

Projects made during the course

Karaktøj by Paula Barci

2100: A Speculation of Man in Space by Nina Park

“2100: A Speculation of Man in Space” is a speculative design aimed to critique the notion of space tourism and the commercialization of outer space.

FIDO by Nanna Sandal

“FIDO” is a design fiction, that starts a dialogue around the future - how will the supermarket be in the future? What defines happiness? And who is responsible for it?

The Reader Reader by Hafsa Jamal Makda and Lidia Ruiz Díaz

This is a book that reads you, as you read it. A playful interaction designed for library-goers and book lovers that explores the magic that happens when reader and book meet.

Endless War by Xi Ming Wang

War seems to be very far from our lives, but in fact, war has never been stopped for thousands of years. The history of human development is a history of war. It is difficult for us to feel the cruelty of war personally.