This blog is being written (in my notes, because my wireless is off), sitting in todays lecture/unlecture/symposium (whichever term you wan’t to use really..).
Some ideas I took away from this:
. Science fiction IS a good example of Design Fiction
. Design fiction more interested with the broader – opposed to Science Fiction which can be viewed as having a great interest in the actual technology.
. As a society, we have to think through the complexity and future problems the world may encounter.
. Media industries are experiencing disruption due to the internet, so we have to have the ability to think through scenarios
Adrian put forward the question – ‘what do you think your job will be in 2015 when you graduate uni?‘ and suggested that thinking about Design Fiction in relation to the answer to this question is a good idea. This is one of the main ideas that stuck in my mind from todays discussion. And it does scare me a bit to think that in 2 and a half years, when I graduate, the jobs I was interested in now, will have significant changes to the way they operate and function. Especially with the way the world is constantly evolving with new technology and new programs, and even more so, especially because I’m still not 100% with what I want my career to be when I do finish this course.
I guess todays symposium made me think about the future in a way I wasn’t really considering before hand, and it made me realise that Design Fiction is useful for more than just designing new things, but it is a helpful tool to use when simply thinking of and contemplating the future as a world where we will be living.
So yeah, overall, today’s discussions were insightful, and I think I liked the way the session was run, a lot more than the previous weeks. I think the variety of opinions and thoughts made it slightly more engaging for me, and helped broaden my own thoughts on the subject matters.
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