Future Design Reader

_work-in-progress

_intro

The references and inspirations that inform this research are connected to the worldwide topics of history, society, culture, technology, the contemporary world, current global and local challenges, and the future. With this exploration, I am interested in the friction between different reads, movies, games, and any artworks that give a take on how we imagine our future(s) and how much we realise our role in its(their) shaping.

This reader was created during my CYENS Art Residency 2024 in Lefkosia, Cyprus (September-December 2024).

_references

★ Barbrook, R. (2007). Imaginary futures : from thinking machines to the global village. London: Pluto. ‌
★ Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong: Queerying Homophily. In: Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer u.a. (Hg.): Pattern Discrimination. Lüneburg: meson press 2018, S. 59–97. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/12350.
★ Commonspoly (2020). (https://commonspoly.cc/) Commonspoly is a non-profit, open source board game that encourages a culture of cooperation and questions the violent model of neoliberal privatisation.
‌★ Conversations with Edouard Glissant (2010). Documentary
‌★ Dunne, A. and Raby, F. (2013). Speculative Everything : Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. Erscheinungsort Nicht Ermittelbar: Mit Press. ‌
★ Господинов, Г. (2024). Градинарят и смъртта. Пловдив. Жанет-45
★ Graeber, D. and Wengrow, D. (2021). The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity. London: Penguin Books.
★ Sohie, C. (2023). Speculative Futures: Design for Change. In: Hilal, S., Bedir, M., Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Tamke, M. (eds) Design for Partnerships for Change. UIA 2023. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36993-3_19

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☁ _reflections

_For Glissant, "we are in the same family when we share the same reactions and intuitions of the world (...) when we have the same manners". The roots can be found through poetry or knowledge. It is the common knowledge we accept from our parents and teachers (of any form) when we grow up. From the people we know and the events we experience. Thus, our predictions are "educated guesses" with the support of what we know, have seen, have read, have heard and experienced. When we look at the future, "we see the horizon through our imagination". The future we can create is the one we can imagine.

_Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's collected data and grouped subjects with the help of similarity. Similarity breeds connection. She argues, "Homophily is the mechanism by which individuals “stick” together, and “wes” emerge". Predictions can be made thanks to the trained programmes which work with the collected data. However, "predictions can be “self-canceling” as well as self-fulfilling", she quotes Nate Silver. Thus, there are multiple possible futures. Everyone's imagination brings one future and we collectively shape our collective future.

_Similarity and homophily are a strong core of the way people live, interact, and therefore - shape the future.

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