Speculative Futures Amsterdam

Speculative design is an approach that offers tools to map the future in a meaningful way.
Instead of focusing on problems in the present, speculative designs imagine how developments change over time and affect the future. By building both possible and preferable futures, you combine business vision and practice. It enables you to describe your role in the near future as a business and offers speculation about matching products or services. It opens up ways of thinking about a business beyond an immediate attempt to solve current problems, and instead see opportunities to affect long term change in the world. In this session, we will explore the challenges and the opportunities of The Hyperconnected City.

In our third Speculative Futures Amsterdam meetup, we will explore an ideation technique to create wearables of counter-surveillance culture. Prototypes will be scored according to design values and requirements, which we will explain in the introduction.

18:00 - 18:30
Doors open & Walk-in

18:30 - 18:35
Welcome by Digital Society School (Mick Jongeling & Theo Ploeg)

18:40 - 18:50
Introduction to 'Embodied Infrastructures', research by Mick Jongeling

18:50 - 19:00
Design values and requirements explained

19:00 - 19:30
Time for exploration of wearables.

19:30 - 19:45
Sharing of outcomes + scoring of wearables

19:45 - 20:30
Drinks + Networking

Important: We will meet at the Digital Society School at Marine Terrein!

Map the future of your business in a meaningful way!

The future is uncertain. Recent environmental, societal and technological developments give us a hard time understanding the changes our world goes through. For Businesses it can be challenging to keep up. A focus on products, services and customers isn’t enough anymore: it also means understanding the world and our relationship with it, and within it, in a different way.

Speculative design is an approach that offers tools to map the future in a meaningful way. Instead of focussing on problems in the present, speculative designs imagines how developments change over time and effect the future. By building a both possible and preferable future you combine business vision and practice. It enables you to describe your role in the near future as a business and offers speculation about matching products or services. It opens up ways of thinking about business beyond an immediate attempt to solve current problems, and instead see opportunities to affect longer term change in the world.

We will use the intervention design approach, a method that aims at (re)shaping a new practice that is useful now, not in the future.

Prices:

Professionals: €449,-
Edu2edu fee - €349,-
E-Week discount code available

Instructors:

Theo Ploeg
Dedicated accelerationist. design and media sociologist. tells stories of possible futures. Lives happily in the extreme now. Researches, teaches, talks and writes. Wandering on the edges of speculative design, design fiction, pop culture, accelerationism and speculative realism. Co-Founder of Speculative Futures Amsterdam.

Mick Jongeling
I research the visual and social impact of rapidly developing technologies on individuals and society. I strive to create pieces of work that questions the current state of the Internet and our involvement in it, being it by speculative design, participatory design or field research. Co-Founder of Speculative Futures Amsterdam.

Speculative Futures Amsterdam is a component chapter of the global Speculative Futures community, hosted at the Digital Society School.

Speculative Futures is an international community of meetups focused on Speculative & Critical Design, Design Fiction, Futurism, and Strategy & Foresight and any vision or approach which involves using design as a vehicle to speculate about potential or alternate futures. Speculative Futures is an effort steered by the Design Futures Initiative.

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We will be back for another meetup on the 25th of September!
We will explore different techniques for hosting and participating in speculative design workshops.

18:00 - 18:30
Doors open & Walk in

18:30 - 18:35
Welcome by Digital Society School (Mick Jongeling & Theo Ploeg)

18:40 - 19:45
Workshop (Tbd)

19:45 - 20:30
Drinks + Networking

Speculative Futures is an international community of meetups focused on Speculative & Critical Design, Design Fiction, Futurism, and Strategy & Foresight and any vision or approach which involves using design as a vehicle to speculate about potential or alternate futures. Speculative Futures is an effort steered by the Design Futures Initiative.

The Digital Society School is proud to announce the opening of the Speculative Futures Chapter, Amsterdam.

Speculative Futures is an international community of meetups focused on Speculative & Critical Design, Design Fiction, Futurism, and Strategy & Foresight. Together, we will examine the ephemeral and the tangible; showcasing creative projects, far out research, and tangible strategies for affecting change. In our meetups we will be hosting workshops around speculative design for those interested in speculative design, critical design, discursive design, strategic foresight, futurism, science fiction and visionary approaches that use design and visual culture to imagine potential futures. From time, we would like to invite speakers—practitioners, teachers, students, and other professionals who will talk about their work and methods.

If you’re interested and would like to keep up to date with our meetups, please consider joining our meetup group: https://www.meetup.com/Speculative-Futures-Amsterdam/

The chapter will be lead by Theo Ploeg, design and media sociologist and Mick Jongeling, Digital Transformation Designer at Digital to Physical track.

MIC DROPS
The DSS Mic Drops are inspirational, interactive, provocative master classes given by expert researchers and practitioners, on topics that relate to design, tech, societal challenges and how we can make the world a better place by integrating technology more wisely and humanely.

Be your own robot - What if AR glasses define what you see and do?
Apps and algorithms are already playing a significant role in today's world. What is going to be our role, once we start wearing AR glasses that promise to guide us through life in the most optimal and efficient way?

SANDER VEENHOF
Augmented reality artist Sander Veenhof works on projects where the digital and physical space meet, and engage with local data and humans. His projects invite people to reflect on technology beyond its standard application and relate it to social and societal impact.

http://sndrv.nl/

Talk: Be your own robot - what if AR glasses define what you see and do?
Speaker: Sander Veenhof, AR artist
Date: October 17
Time: 17:00 - 18:30 (including Q&A and Debate)
Drinks: 17:30
Venue: Studio HvA: http://www.hva.nl/locaties/hva-locaties/niet-les-locaties/studio-hva.html