Designing Hypotheticals

School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe · Summer 2017

Co-taught by Chris Woebken and Sascha Pohflepp

Live-action role play, machine learning and fabricated environments make possible futures inhabitable, testing speculative ideas through an immersive exhibition.

Student work & course documentation

A printed speculative newspaper used as a design artifact — Speculative storytelling through printed artifacts.

A staged installation with an illuminated table and electronic equipment — An imagined environment staged as an installation.

An illuminated symbol above a bar-like speculative installation — World-building through spaces, props and signage.

2017 Summer · Full photo album

Course outline

Live-action role play, machine learning and fabricated environments make possible futures inhabitable, testing speculative ideas through an immersive exhibition.

Four weeks, full-time · Guest teachers: Susan Ploetz · live-action role play; Gene Kogan · AI workshop · Course description

31 July–25 August 2017 · ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin

Participants combined narrative, computer vision and machine learning with fabrication to develop design provocations for an immersive exhibition.

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