The introduction presentation for our first meetup of San Francisco Critical Design & Speculative Futures. Presented by Phil Balagtas

1. SF Critical Design & Speculative Futures
060315
#SFCDSF

2. @extractable

3. We are looking for sponsors!
futuresmeetup@gmail.com
9pm-?
@ House of Shields
39 New Montgomery St

4. Why Another Design Meetup?
Platform for Conversation
Explore Methods
Talk About Cool Projects

5. Future Content
Speakers
Workshops
Student Work

6. What will we be talking about?
Speculative Design
Critical Design
Design Fiction
All of the above.

7. Speculative Design is
…a bending of the way we think about
the world and how design sits into it.
…designing for alternate futures.

8. The Futures Cone

9. The Futures Cone
Signals

10. What will we be talking about?
Speculative Design
Critical Design.
Design Fiction

11. “let's call it critical design, that questions the cultural, social
and ethical implications of emerging technologies.
A form of design that can help us to define the most desirable
futures, and avoid the least desirable.”
- Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby

12. Technological Dream
Series: No.1 Robots
Dunne & Raby 2007

17. What if?
What could happen?
How about…
What would it be like?

18. According to the UN, we need to produce
70% more food in the next 40 years.

19. Designs for an Overpopulated Planet: Foragers
Dunne & Raby

23. The Grey Rush
David Benjamin
Soo-in Yang

25. Famine.

26. Republic of Salivation
Burton Nitta

30. The Abandoned Robot
Buton Nitta

35. How will we treat the end of the lives of future living and
thinking products?
If this is a future, then what other scenarios exist around
the ethical treatment of AI as objects…as organisms?

36. Ex Machina

37. Fly Me to the Moon aka Dinner with friends
Swift financial transactions

38. Intel's design fiction on
the future of education

40. Speculative Design a way of thinking that
frees your creative compass.

41. Synthesis.

42. Synthesis of ideas.

43. Synthesis of worlds.

44. Synthesis of futures.

45. Synthesis of potential futures.

46. Phil Balagtas
@neshacom1
futuresmeetup@gmail.com
Jordan Presnick
@JordanPresnick