Professor: Barbara von Rechbach
Design Fiction is critical speculation about different possible and preferable futures in media design using methodologies of science-fiction prototyping and design research. Students are examining possible scenarios for developing interfaces in a near future. They work within story laboratories investigating the “archeology of the present” (William Gibson), testing utopian and anti-utopian settings. Which future is possible, which probable, and what can we actually imagine and visualize? Design is an expression and representation of its users’ inherent hopes, projections and fears – Design Fiction as design method allows us to detect the hidden issues in media objects and their different usages.
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Blister
Alexander Jestl (AT)
Speculative design in pharmaceuticals is used in an investigation about packaging waste and overproduction of medicines.
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Kungfufi
Marina Dragicevic (AT), Doris Sutrich (AT)
Kungfufi is a dystopian design project about a protection system for a safer world.
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Silver Drop
Nora Reiter (AT), Andrea Sommerauer (AT)
A tool for sending messages to space, as a time capsule with images and emotions from earth.