SPECULATIVE

DESIGN
In this assignment, you will create a multi-page layout that chooses a
concept, design idea, problem, or ideal in the present and extends it
into a utopic, dystopic, or simply atopic future. In doing so, you can
choose your own current concept (teacher's pay, Facebook tracking,
black lives matter, urban farming, advancements in food technology,
etc.) or you can respond to one of the sample design briefs found on
the RSA's (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture,
and Commerce) website.

1. Start with a well-researched and quoted/cited problem/idea

narrative in the present. What is the problem? Why? How? For
whom? Point + Evidence + Analysis. Research is a must here. (~1 page
single-spaced)
2. Expand the problem or ideal into the future—what do you speculate
happening in 10, 20, 100 years?
3. Create a brief story about an everyday interaction with your design.
Have a main character, setting, plot, etc. How is the everyday world
changed for this person? Focus on the culture that might develop
around your design, the laws that support it, the ways people resist it,
the ways it affects society generally. Get into minutiae. (~2 pages
single-spaced)
4. Include at least 3 designed images with textual descriptive
paragraphs, labels, and captions for each. Base your images off of the
ones from our readings.

Photoshop image of your design labeled and out of context.

Image of your design in context and in action with people or nature.
Image of some other optional tweak or expansion of your design system--
what else might happen with your design? How might it break down? How
might it be hacked or used for unintended (or nefarious purposes)?

DUE | APRIL 30