Plan of a Report in Speculative Design

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[...] Is it a flower, and object, a product, a service, a piece of cloth, a plant? . [...]

[...] Plan of a Report in Speculative Design A – Define a critical theme of question in details Introduction (course one) B – Justify its interest, its utility, its importance in your mind C – Describe your research methodology C – Synthesis of your research about the subject (mentioning of course the detailed sources used D – Your vision of the theme in 20 or 50 years (to be precised): imagination based on potential scenarios Framing the temporal or contextual setting (course A – Enlarge your scenario / vision of the theme to the « surroundings » of it B – Describe further the society around as you can imagine it C – Keep an eye on the coherence of the different aspects of your scenario Design 5 artifacts (course 3 to begin course 2 : 5 presentation pour 5 artifacts) Artifact = more than an object = piece of the future, bearing values, tensions, imagination. Each presentation must follow these different steps: • Give a name to the artifact (evocating, credible or poetical to make it get into the fiction) • Describe it: What do we see? What does it do? [...]