Charlton Heston introduced Scott Smith who demonstrated a home lifting device called Lift@home at DemoCamp 2019 in Toronto. Smith discussed how science fiction works like Planet of the Apes, I Am Legend, and Make Room! Make Room! anticipated future technologies. He quoted sources saying science fiction shapes technological development and that design fiction probes ideas for the future similarly to how science fiction does through stories. Smith concluded by quoting I Am Legend, saying his device enters "the unassailable fortress of forever."
As an assistant professor I lead weeklong workshops at various design, architecture, and business schools, guiding students through the creative process from ideation to running prototype ready to be pitched to different stakeholders. The course covers a range of content from ideation techniques and rating, business- model prototyping, competitor analysis and differentiation, paper prototyping to lean design techniques and Pecha Kucha-style presentations.
In this presentation, we analyse some of the aspect of media experimentation, taking the example of a laboratory for media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After examining how media research consists in creating new imaginaries (visual or experiental depictions, situations) a.k.a the "future", we then examine how these created facts (fictum, narratives) are usually presented as new and believable (plausible) celebrating things to come and in the same time carry out themes or topics that are in fact part of a bigger, mythical techno-cosmogony.
We conclude by synthetising both our future arguments and fictive counter-arguments in the context of media response abilities when it comes to amplify story-bits in media systems (memetic resonance). We propose in particular to add contextual elements to the repetition of narrative arguments made by story professionnals and also to encourage creative reconfiguration of both memes and their context in a pragmatic, and free attitude, where narratives are not only embodied as stories-objects but also as tools for action, recreation and playful reconfiguration of socio-material practices.
From Neuromancer to the Internet: the Role of Science Fiction Culture in Designnicolas nova
Keynote speech at the Junior Research Day - Swiss Design Network Basel, October 28th, 2010.
This talk was intended to give students an overall perspective of the relationships between Sci-Fi and design.
Design Fiction: Does the search for plausibility lead to deception?Paul Coulton
Paper presented at DRS 2016 and available here http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/design-fiction(0cfe9095-7277-4e77-8004-c2a49862faab).html
Relational design and the contradiction of oppressionUTFPR
Relational Design is a profound transformation in the theory and practice of design, in which the object is lost to gain the field. Objects are not isolated things, but part of a complex network of things and beings in relation. However, relations are not all the same. There are centralizing patterns that create hierarchical relations between things and human bodies. The relation of oppression, for example, is one of many contradictions of the body that induces centralized topologies in space. The question that this talk answers is: What can we do with relational design against oppression and in favor of the liberation of the oppressed?
As an assistant professor I lead weeklong workshops at various design, architecture, and business schools, guiding students through the creative process from ideation to running prototype ready to be pitched to different stakeholders. The course covers a range of content from ideation techniques and rating, business- model prototyping, competitor analysis and differentiation, paper prototyping to lean design techniques and Pecha Kucha-style presentations.
In this presentation, we analyse some of the aspect of media experimentation, taking the example of a laboratory for media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After examining how media research consists in creating new imaginaries (visual or experiental depictions, situations) a.k.a the "future", we then examine how these created facts (fictum, narratives) are usually presented as new and believable (plausible) celebrating things to come and in the same time carry out themes or topics that are in fact part of a bigger, mythical techno-cosmogony.
We conclude by synthetising both our future arguments and fictive counter-arguments in the context of media response abilities when it comes to amplify story-bits in media systems (memetic resonance). We propose in particular to add contextual elements to the repetition of narrative arguments made by story professionnals and also to encourage creative reconfiguration of both memes and their context in a pragmatic, and free attitude, where narratives are not only embodied as stories-objects but also as tools for action, recreation and playful reconfiguration of socio-material practices.
From Neuromancer to the Internet: the Role of Science Fiction Culture in Designnicolas nova
Keynote speech at the Junior Research Day - Swiss Design Network Basel, October 28th, 2010.
This talk was intended to give students an overall perspective of the relationships between Sci-Fi and design.
Design Fiction: Does the search for plausibility lead to deception?Paul Coulton
Paper presented at DRS 2016 and available here http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/design-fiction(0cfe9095-7277-4e77-8004-c2a49862faab).html
Relational design and the contradiction of oppressionUTFPR
Relational Design is a profound transformation in the theory and practice of design, in which the object is lost to gain the field. Objects are not isolated things, but part of a complex network of things and beings in relation. However, relations are not all the same. There are centralizing patterns that create hierarchical relations between things and human bodies. The relation of oppression, for example, is one of many contradictions of the body that induces centralized topologies in space. The question that this talk answers is: What can we do with relational design against oppression and in favor of the liberation of the oppressed?
Summary of a lecture at the HIT HOLON school of design.
BORN STIMULATES ORGANIZATIONS, AGENCIES, AND BRANDS TO BECOME FUTURES-READY HYPER-ADAPTIVE AND VALUE-SENSITIVE IN A RADICAL NOW & FUTURE.
Itai Talmi
Founder
BORN. Futurising organizations.
bornfutures@gmail.com
bornlabs.strikingly.com
This is the latest version of my many presentation about how strategic innovation can be driven via meaningful experiences. In included update material I've presented in the USA, Belgium, Chile, Buenos Aires, and Korea, etc. (May 2009)
Unfinished Business Design Fiction Lecture @ OCADChangeist
Unfinished Business Lecture - Design Fiction: Provoking the Future by Making It (September 29, 2010 from 5:45 pm to 7:30 pm)
Unfinished Business Events are designed by Torch Innovation and Normative Design and sponsored by the Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD.
Could we have had the iPhone without Star Trek? Can we create the next innovation without thinking about other possible worlds? What are we making out of our imaginations that will shape what’s next? As an emerging area of thought and practice, Design Fiction provides us with a way of “thinking about doing what we see and imagine”. By making models or prototypes of the future, we expose, test and probe further into it, exploring scenarios as use cases, as they are assumptions about the future made reality. Scott Smith of Changeist will take us on a journey to see where Design Fiction has come from, its impact on a generation unwittingly raised on it, and how designers, creatives, strategists, and other future-minded professions among us are applying it to actively provoke possible futures that we prefer.
Development Unbound: Utopistic non-linearity in social projectionsJuozas Kasputis
The social sciences are deeply influenced by the success of Newtonian physics what presupposes certain linearity and reversibility in scientific reasoning. This presentation is a modest proposal to revisit scientific method in order to elaborate some alternatives.
Presented an original Research Paper on the impact as well as significance of Science-Fiction in Research. The paper was published by Journal of Scientific Temper (Vol 7(3&4), July-Dec 2019, pp. 166-190, ISSN: 2278-2788)
Fundamental Assumptions In Conducting Scientific InquiryEdward Erasmus
Guest lecture prepared for Philosphy of Science: second year class, OGM, University of Aruba. Discusses my view on research in the past and now, and its implications for conducting social scientific research.
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thanks to the incessant world-constructing activity of human minds and
hands. Literary fiction is probably the most active experimental
laboratory of the world-constructing enterprise.
1
Although design usually references sculpture and painting for material,
formal and graphic inspiration, and more recently the social sciences for
protocols on working with and studying people—if we are interested in shifting
design’s focus from designing for how the world is now to designing for how
things could be—we will need to turn to speculative culture and what Lubomír
Doležel has called an “experimental laboratory of the world-constructing
enterprise.”
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70 CHAPTER 5
Speculating is based on imagination, the ability to literally imagine
other worlds and alternatives. In Such Stuff as Dreams Keith oatley writes
that “[i]magination gives us entry to abstraction, including mathematics.
We gain the ability to conceive alternatives and hence to evaluate. We
gain the ability to think of futures and outcomes, skills of planning.
The ability to think ethically also becomes a possibility.”
2
There are many kinds of imagination, dark imaginations, original
imaginations, social, creative, mathematical. There are also professional
imaginations—the scientific imagination, the technological imagination,
the artistic imagination, the sociological imagination, and of course
the one we are most interested in, the design imagination.
fictionAl WorldS
As Lubomír Doležel writes in Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds,
“our actual world is surrounded by an infinity of other possible worlds.”
3
once we move away from the present, from how things are now, we enter
this realm of possible worlds. We find the idea of creating fictional worlds
and putting them to work fascinating. The ones we are most interested in
are not just for entertainment but for reflection, critique, provocation,
and inspiration. Rather than thinking about architecture, products,
and the environment, we start with laws, ethics, political systems,
social beliefs, values, fears, and hopes, and how these can be translated
into material expressions, embodied in material culture, becoming little
bits of .
Summary of a lecture at the HIT HOLON school of design.
BORN STIMULATES ORGANIZATIONS, AGENCIES, AND BRANDS TO BECOME FUTURES-READY HYPER-ADAPTIVE AND VALUE-SENSITIVE IN A RADICAL NOW & FUTURE.
Itai Talmi
Founder
BORN. Futurising organizations.
bornfutures@gmail.com
bornlabs.strikingly.com
This is the latest version of my many presentation about how strategic innovation can be driven via meaningful experiences. In included update material I've presented in the USA, Belgium, Chile, Buenos Aires, and Korea, etc. (May 2009)
Unfinished Business Design Fiction Lecture @ OCADChangeist
Unfinished Business Lecture - Design Fiction: Provoking the Future by Making It (September 29, 2010 from 5:45 pm to 7:30 pm)
Unfinished Business Events are designed by Torch Innovation and Normative Design and sponsored by the Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD.
Could we have had the iPhone without Star Trek? Can we create the next innovation without thinking about other possible worlds? What are we making out of our imaginations that will shape what’s next? As an emerging area of thought and practice, Design Fiction provides us with a way of “thinking about doing what we see and imagine”. By making models or prototypes of the future, we expose, test and probe further into it, exploring scenarios as use cases, as they are assumptions about the future made reality. Scott Smith of Changeist will take us on a journey to see where Design Fiction has come from, its impact on a generation unwittingly raised on it, and how designers, creatives, strategists, and other future-minded professions among us are applying it to actively provoke possible futures that we prefer.
Development Unbound: Utopistic non-linearity in social projectionsJuozas Kasputis
The social sciences are deeply influenced by the success of Newtonian physics what presupposes certain linearity and reversibility in scientific reasoning. This presentation is a modest proposal to revisit scientific method in order to elaborate some alternatives.
Presented an original Research Paper on the impact as well as significance of Science-Fiction in Research. The paper was published by Journal of Scientific Temper (Vol 7(3&4), July-Dec 2019, pp. 166-190, ISSN: 2278-2788)
Fundamental Assumptions In Conducting Scientific InquiryEdward Erasmus
Guest lecture prepared for Philosphy of Science: second year class, OGM, University of Aruba. Discusses my view on research in the past and now, and its implications for conducting social scientific research.
69 A METHoDoLogICAL PLAYgRoUND 5. A METHODOLOGICALP.docxtroutmanboris
69 A METHoDoLogICAL PLAYgRoUND
5.
A METHODOLOGICALPLAYGROUnD:
FICTIOnAL wORLDs
AnD THOUGHT EXPERIMEnTs
The universe of possible worlds is constantly expanding and diversifying
thanks to the incessant world-constructing activity of human minds and
hands. Literary fiction is probably the most active experimental
laboratory of the world-constructing enterprise.
1
Although design usually references sculpture and painting for material,
formal and graphic inspiration, and more recently the social sciences for
protocols on working with and studying people—if we are interested in shifting
design’s focus from designing for how the world is now to designing for how
things could be—we will need to turn to speculative culture and what Lubomír
Doležel has called an “experimental laboratory of the world-constructing
enterprise.”
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AN: 672907 ; Dunne, Anthony, Raby, Fiona.; Speculative Everything : Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
Account: s8849760.main.ehost
70 CHAPTER 5
Speculating is based on imagination, the ability to literally imagine
other worlds and alternatives. In Such Stuff as Dreams Keith oatley writes
that “[i]magination gives us entry to abstraction, including mathematics.
We gain the ability to conceive alternatives and hence to evaluate. We
gain the ability to think of futures and outcomes, skills of planning.
The ability to think ethically also becomes a possibility.”
2
There are many kinds of imagination, dark imaginations, original
imaginations, social, creative, mathematical. There are also professional
imaginations—the scientific imagination, the technological imagination,
the artistic imagination, the sociological imagination, and of course
the one we are most interested in, the design imagination.
fictionAl WorldS
As Lubomír Doležel writes in Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds,
“our actual world is surrounded by an infinity of other possible worlds.”
3
once we move away from the present, from how things are now, we enter
this realm of possible worlds. We find the idea of creating fictional worlds
and putting them to work fascinating. The ones we are most interested in
are not just for entertainment but for reflection, critique, provocation,
and inspiration. Rather than thinking about architecture, products,
and the environment, we start with laws, ethics, political systems,
social beliefs, values, fears, and hopes, and how these can be translated
into material expressions, embodied in material culture, becoming little
bits of .
Kim Solez Singularity explained promoted winter 2015Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "The Technological Singularity Explained and Promoted" on January 13th, 2015 in the course on Technology and the Future of Medicine LABMP 590 http://www.singularitycourse.com at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Copyright (c) 2015, JustMachines Inc.
Kim Solez Singularity explained and promoted winter 2014Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "The technological Singularity explained and promoted" in the Technology and Future of Medicine course on January 16, 2014, at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Copyright (c) 2014 JustMachines Inc.
What will retailers do with all the data they can collect? Predictive models lead to "anticipatory commerce," where retail gets unreal: products that show up because you mentioned them, products developed because enough people searched for them, pre-positioned deliveries, instant refills, disappearing shops and vapor supply chains. Big data, constant sensing and new approaches to logistics could make familiar parts of traditional retail disappear, but are we ready for what could come next?
Even as it is still taking shape as a field of technologies and services, some IoT ventures are delving into the realm of emotion as a service—emotion detection, emotion management, mapping and more. Scott Smith will discuss how the IoT might be our emotional companion, counsellor, and coach, and share some speculations on how the Emotional IoT might evolve.
SHADOW SELVES: LIVING WITH (OR WITHOUT) OUR BIG DATA DOUBLESChangeist
Presented at Emerce eDay 2014 in Amsterdam.
"The embrace of Big Data is generating massive pools of information about consumers in an attempt to create profiles that can be understood, sold to, advertised to, and increasingly treated like the real "us". But as we cast more data shadows, these digital portraits of us take on a life of their own, for better or for worse. Scott will examine what's happening as we go from personalization to digital duplicates to world where our data selves—shadow selves—may become more important and influential than our real personas."
This talk was given at Data Ecologies 2014 in Linz, Austria. It focuses on creation of artifacts and narratives that communicate 'mundane' futures. Key case study discussed was Winning Formula, a sports paper from 2018 developed for FutureEverything (http://winningformula.nearfuturelaboratory.com).
Scott Smith presentation for Lift 14 - Geneva, Switzerland.
Presented as part of the "Sharing Economy Backlash" session at Lift 14, this talk discussed the issues and challenges facing the sharing economy today, and whether it is sustainable and scalable longterm.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
12. “…Science fiction
does not merely
anticipate but actively
shapes technological
futures through its effect
on the collective
imagination.”
-Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell,
“Resistance is Futile”: Reading Science
Fiction Alongside Ubiquitous Computing
13. “Design seeks out ways to
jump over its own conceptual
walls—scenarios, user
observation, brainstorming,
rapid prototyping, critical
design, speculative design.”
-Bruce Sterling, interactions magazine, May/
June 2009
14. “Design is about the future in a
way similar to science fiction. It
probes imaginatively and
materializes ideas, the way science
fiction materializes ideas,
oftentimes through stories.”
-Julian Bleecker, Near Future Laboratory
“Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science,
Fact and Fiction”