Future Scenarios
Pedro Medina
Editorial IED Madrid Director
p.medina@madrid.ied.es
1. Future Scenarios: project the future

2. Future Scenarios: design as a system

3. Future Scenarios: dark web + debate about Future
Scenarios

Lunch break

4. Workshop: To inhabit the future as designers

Future Scenarios
Saskia Sassen: “Analytic Tactics”:
- Destabilizing stable meanings
- In the shadows of powerful explanations
- When territory exits conventional framing: it becomes
institutionally mobile and can alter the meaning
- The Making of it all
Magic Highway (1958)
GOtrip - Hover Car

VW
Human Ecosystems - Bologna
Human Ecosystems - Bologna
OSArc Manifesto
Fritz Lang

Metropolis (1927)
Los Angeles 2019

Blade Runner (1982)
1984
George Orwell (1948)
Things to come
W.C. Menzies (1936)
Things to come
Communication World 2036
Telstar (1962)
The Limits to Growth (1972)
Blade Runner (1982)
Hill Valley 21/10/2015

Back to the Future 2 (1989)
Future Vision 2019. Microsoft (2011)
Future Vision 2019. Microsoft (2011)
The future from 2014-2016
· Max Planck Institute: critical time between
innovation, production and communication

· IBM: cognitive computing (5 senses)

· Pew Research Center: Internet of Things,
augmented reality, new ways, big data-big brother

· UN: the knowledge society in the center
(democratization of knowledge, mass media …)

· Cambridge University, Windows, Apple, MIT, Mary
Meeker…
Keywords

· New communication technologies

· Communication-community

· Globalization of the public space / Privacy

· Collaborative processes

· The common

· New communities (creative users, participatory ...)

· New "spheres" of decision

· New ways of working

· Big Data & Analytics

· Global processes

· Global Governance?

· More efficiently resources

· Sustainability, social values...
New life styles
Keywords:

· Internet of Things

· Mobility / Portability

· Augmented reality

· New materials

· Biotechnology

· Nanotechnology

· Printing 3/4 D

· Personalization (customizing)

· Cyber / Robotics
Energy everywhere
LIAM F1 UWT

by The Archimedes
Altaeros
Energies
Vortex Bladeless
Kimberley

(Sudáfrica)
Window Socket
Bio-Photovoltaic Paneling Syst. Apostolos Marios
Mouzakopoulos, Pablo Marcet, Ashwini Mani, Akanksha Kargwal
Bio Intelligent Quotient (BIQ)

Pierre Calleja
Philips: Off the Grid. Suistainable habitat (2020)
Energy and water
everywhere
Clive van Heerden:
Off the grid (2020)
Energy and water everywhere
Warkawater
Abeer Seikaly
Supermaterials
Material Connexion
Leitat
GE Global Research: Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCS)
Graphenea, Avanzare: graphene
…
LG's bendy roll-up OLED screen
Joris Laarman: MX3D
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