The slides were presented at the workshop we hosted at EduSummit20 during Interaction20 Conference in Milano. The aim of the workshop was to explore the core principles and applications of Speculative Design & Design Fiction practices by using futurish cards, a generative card deck that helps people to play with scenarios and artefacts from the future.

1. Welcome!Angelica Fontana - Silvio Cioni
#futurishcards
Zoltar Says
Make Your Wish
#take your seat and
introduce yourself to your mates
;-)

2. SILVIO CIONI
Lead Design Director, Sketchin
Adjunct Professor, Naba & Domus Academy
Co-organizer, Milan Speculative Futures
http://cioni.net
@cioni
ANGELICA FONTANA
Service Design Lead, Sketchin
Visiting Lecturer, Naba & Domus Academy
https://angelicafontana.com
@angefontana

3. Welcome to
Big, 1988 by Penny Marshall

4. A 4-hour immersion into the
core principles and applications of
Speculative Design & Design Fiction
practices

5. Differently from traditional design,
Speculative Design & Design Fiction
are practices focused on
encouraging people to debate
about alternative visions and
prototype for preferable futures

6. Elliott P. Montgomery, founder of The Extrapolation Factory, a design-futures studio based in Brooklyn
AN UNRESOLVED MAPPING OF SPECULATIVE DESIGN

7. Discursive Design
Design Fiction
Design Futures
Futures Design
Futurescaping
Design Probes
Design for Debate
Adversarial Design
Interrogative Design
Speculative
Design

8. In this hands-on session, you will
experience different design techniques
and use futurish.cards, a generative card
deck that will allow you to play with
scenarios and artefacts from the future

9. futurish.cards

10. futurish is not a method deck

11. IDEO ✽ METHOD CARDS
https://www.ideo.com/post/method-cards

12. futurish is a generative card deck

13. NFL ✽ DF-DBCPC 0-7
https://nearfuturelaboratory.myshopify.com/products/design-fiction-product-design-work-kit

14. http://situationlab.org/project/the-thing-from-the-future/
THE SITUATION LAB ✽ THE THING FROM THE
FUTURE - SINGULARITY UNIVERSITY EDITION

15. RADICALZZ STUDIO ✽ FUTURO CARDS
https://futuro.cards https://radicalzz.studio

16. FFWD ✽ RANDOM
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weareffwd/random-futures

17. the deck

18. The deck is made of
50 cards

19. Cards are grouped into 5 sets

20. Cards from sets can be combined
to create different prompts
for envisioning scenarios and artefacts
from the future

21. Attribute Object Time framein+
AN EXAMPLE OF PROMPTING
Design a
What can it be?

22. Affective Robot 2040in+
Design a
What can it be?
AN EXAMPLE OF PROMPTING

23. The cards can be easily integrated with
different techniques from Design Fiction
(diegetic prototypes) to Futures Thinking
(scenario matrix)

24. The deck is aimed to stimulate concept
and scenario generation and it does not
meant to represent the entire process
of a speculative design project

25. futurish.cards is gratefully inspired by Near
Future Laboratory - DF-DBCPC 0-7 and
Situation Lab - The Thing From The Future

26. Recommendations
for speculation

27. #1
go beyond
commercial applications

28. #2
facilitate
alternative visions

29. #3
imagine possible
interactions and interpretations

30. #4
fictional but
firmly functional

31. #5
suspend
disbelief!

32. #6
be
socially oriented

33. By speculating, designers re-think
future products, services,
systems and worlds

34. WORKSHOP AGENDA
14:00 - 14:20 |
14:20 - 14:40 |
14:40 - 15:10 |
15:10 - 16:20 |
16:20 - 17:00 |
17:00 - 17:50 |
Welcome (20mins)
Intro (20mins)
Futurescape (30mins)
Artefact from the future (70mins)
MFP Minimum Fictional Product (40mins)
Pitch your wish (50mins)

35. the team

40. your wish will be granted!
Big, 1988 by Penny Marshall

41. Thank you
#futurishcards
futurishcards@gmail.com