This week’s unlecture and the classes involved thinking about “design” and “speculative writing”.

What springs to mind when thinking about design is:

– Creating something new
– Developing a product, service, object
– Can be for better or for worse for our lives/ the world
–  Linked to double loop learning ?
– Can effect change
– Perhaps an antidote to reporting/parroting back info
–  About us being innovators

Speculative fiction is said to “offer writing as a way to think with and through things”.

So with this in mind, I think their is a close relationship between design and speculative fiction. We can use our writing to think through ‘designs’, become innovators and create objects using our imagination.

What is starting to really interest me in this course is the growing emphasis on the importance of IMAGINATION!
Without imagination we can’t become designers, innovators or media producers.