Welcome to the Futures
SVA Products of Design · 2016
Facilitated by Chris Woebken and Steve Hamilton
An orientation workshop translating emerging scientific possibilities into speculative objects and public encounters.
Student projects
Moments in Microbes
Antriksh Nangia and Louis Elwood Leach
A speculative recorder imagines preserving sensory memories for people moving to Mars.
Electree City
Smruti Adya and Will Crum
A portable prototype explores trees as charging stations and asks who should share their energy.
H2O Wallet
Alexia Cohen and Sowmya Iyer
A wearable dispenser treats water as currency to prompt discussion about scarcity and conservation.
Workshop outline
- Discuss approaches to futuring and speculative design.
- Use emerging scientific phenomena to frame possible future scenarios.
- Conceive, prototype and perform a proposal in small teams.
- Take the proposal onto New York streets and document public responses.
The Class of 2018 completed the team projects within four hours during the daylong orientation workshop.
SVA’s full workshop documentation and student project photographs ↗