DESGN615 Futurism

Designers thinking and making in contemporary social/cultural landscapes - in a moment which appears to be consistently between technological singularities - increasingly need working methodologies that allow them to think past immediate contexts, forms. and personas. The future, however, can be found either one second or one thousand years in front of our noses, and sometimes it lives deep within our poetic human past. So the challenge is composed of imagination, excavation, and recombination: wherever you find the future, it is always present both ahead, behind, and around the compositive, designerly moment. The science fiction genres, in both literature and cinema, have always been a rich source of inspiration to engineers and artists of all stripes. By bringing together the ideational threads present within specific bodies of work it is possible to see the practical applications of a deliberately naive point of view.