Probing Emerging Futures

3. PROBING EMERGING FUTURES
Moderator: Caroline Hummels | TU/e

4. PROBING EMERGING FUTURES
Moderator: Caroline Hummels | TU/e
PROBING EMERGING FUTURES
Philips Design, TU/e, Design Academy, Frank Kolkman

5. PROBING EMERGING FUTURES
Moderator: Caroline Hummels | TU/e
PROBING EMERGING FUTURES
Philips Design, TU/e, Design Academy, Frank Kolkman
The creation of meaningful innovations that improve people's lives requires a
vision of the future supported by insight and inspiration. Such was the
intention of the renowned Philips Design Probes research initiative.

6. PROBING EMERGING FUTURES
Moderator: Caroline Hummels | TU/e
PROBING EMERGING FUTURES
Philips Design, TU/e, Design Academy, Frank Kolkman
Probing emerging futures
Philips Design, TU/e, Design Academy, Frank Kolkman
Embassy of Health - Innovation Powerhouse (STRIJP-T)

7. PROBING EMERGING FUTURES
Presentations panel members

8. PROBING EMERGING FUTURES
Moderator: Caroline Hummels | TU/e
Reon Brand
Olya Kudina
Maarten Steinbuch
Frank Kolkman

9. EMERGING FUTURES
Reon Brand | Philips Design

10. Rethinking value (2010)
Global
Climate Change
Environmental Decline
Other
Probable Global
Consequences
Earth geological epochs
Holocene Anthropocene
Industrial ExperienceAgricultural Knowledge
Socio-economic paradigms

11. We are heading for for +4°C in 2050

12. Emerging Futures (2018)

13. Proposition:
As humans, we have to realize we are part of
the natural ecosystem, not above it.
We cannot only focus on human needs - the
economy has to become a servant of nature.
Painting by Tay Dall

14. ROBOTS ARE TAKING OVER
Maarten Steinbuch | TU/e

19. ROBOTS WILL TAKE OVER,
THERE IS NO LOGICAL OTHER OPTION

20. DESIGN FICTION
Frank Kolkman | Experimental Designer

47. To find out which futures are worth
pursuing we first need to design them

48. THE ETHICAL DIMENSION OF
TECHNOLOGIES
Olya Kudina | University of Twente

49. Technology as a mediator
Human Technology World

51. Technology as a moral mediator

52. Ethical reflection is important for the design and use of
technologies. But it comes either too early or too late.
Proposition:
In practice, it is impossible to include ethical
reflection on technologies in their design and use.

53. PANEL DISCUSSION
Moderator Caroline Hummels | TU/e

54. REFLECTION THROUGH ACTION
We need interdisciplinarity, including designers, to
create potential futures and alternatives, which
enables us, through these designs, to reflect on
relations between technology and ethics.
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55. ETHICS IN ACTION
In practice, it is almost impossible to include
ethical reflection on technologies in their design
and use. Therefore, we need intense collaboration
between different disciplines, including design,
engineering and philosophy, to stimulate ethical
reflection and debate.
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56. ROBOTICS
If robots develop further, will we have a whole
system next to human world. Therefore, we need to
embed this development in our ecosystem. And
what will robotics be in the transformation paradigm
(steady-state & eco-entangled)? Is life pure
chemistry, or is it religious in some form, and what
does that imply for consciousness and robotics?
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57. POETRY
Poetic input is essential to move beyond our
Western way of thinking and reductionism.
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