Currents: Immersive Scenarios

Course outline

Teaching approach

Students use immersive prototyping to envision and test relationships between society, technology and the environment. Fictional narratives, participatory engagements, sets and physical artifacts make these scenarios available for discussion and critique.

Course sequence

1. Introduction to futures studies and immersive design; collective signal scanning and scenario development.
2. Design and facilitate a co-creative workshop, then translate its findings into speculative artifacts.
3. Develop scenarios, storyboards, sets and prototypes through fabrication and iterative critiques.
4. Document and present an immersive proposal at the final showcase at New Lab.

Guest critiques: Ayo Okunseinde at the midterm and Fiona Raby during project development.

Sets, props and participatory scenarios turn alternative relationships with technology and the environment into situations people can enter, experience and debate.