Design Fiction Sequence
Design fictions are imagined tangible prototypes from the future. These can be narratives, news items, physical objects.
They are stories about possible worlds that are told through designed artefacts.
Design fiction is like an archeology for the future. They capture potentially huge or inspiring shifts in technology and society in ordinary mundane things.
They’re fun to make, and fun to imagine. They’re less dry and less impersonal than trend-work and strategy-making. Design fiction prototypes allow the abstract to become real. In doing so, it allows for a deeper examination of that possible future. Is this a preferable future? What should we do between now and then to ensure that future does or does not happen?
Design Fiction: Biophilia Futures ran as a newsletter in 2023; each issue offering a glimpse into a possible future. These fictions focus on futures that bend towards Biophilia - the human tendency to be drawn towards life and life-like processes.
DESIGN FICTION: A Brief History of Sailing
DESIGN FICTION: Great Hall of Possibilities
DESIGN FICTION: Diary of a Basking Shark
DESIGN FICTION: Masked Themselves from History
DESIGN FICTION: Nature Buddy
DESIGN FICTION: How the City Plants Grow
DESIGN FICTION: Birth Flower
DESIGN FICTION: Dead Pokemon
DESIGN FICTION: Forest Fraud
DESIGN FICTION: Product Sage or Who Oversees the AI Ethicists
DESIGN FICTION: EVP, Panthera
DESIGN FICTION: Throw-Away Bottle
DESIGN FICTION: Transfer Season
DESIGN FICTION: Climate Artefacts
DESIGN FICTION: Plant Directory
DESIGN FICTION: The Memes are Never Justified by the Ends
DESIGN FICTION: Saints of the Regeneration
DESIGN FICTION: Ju’wasi School
DESIGN FICTION: Alone with the Ancients
DESIGN FICTION: Colour of the Year 2034
DESIGN FICTION: Citizen Oak
DESIGN FICTION: Karma Off-setting