#desfi

DesFi Prototypes - The Future of Food Production 

Producers of Science Fiction visualise the future.... Producers of Design Fiction create actual prototypes for the future - both explore possible future scenarios based on existing technologies, human interactions and imaginative predictions.... 

Future Fruits demonstrates two important future scenarios

3D Printing of food - with equal measures of nutrients and taste

Consumer food production - if you can print any shape, why print tomatoes?

This team has successfully prototyped a modelling tool that allows users to create their own fruits based on the familiar components of natural fruit development.

Sprint Four: Concept Refinement

I joined each team for a lively catchup on their concept development.

These groups accept and respond to feedback in a very positive way... balancing a real keenness to improve designs with a confidence to defend ideas intelligently...

Some teams stray comfortably between pure DesFi (fictional solution) and Viable (immediate uptake)... it has been an interesting exercise to modify concepts for something in-between, such as a ‘near future’... by adopting emerging technologies that will feasibly be available ... and in some cases, imagining mashups of multiple future tech to solve a present ‘problem’ with a future ‘opportunity’ 

A Trailer for a SciFi short film that presents a Augmented Reality future with the increasingly common visual interpretation of the muted neon lines and curve angled boxes, spinning circles... superimposed on the physical world... inundated yet unhindered?

LOST MEMORIES 2.0 A film written and directed by Francois Ferracci A sequel to the award winning short LOST MEMORIES  (2012)

...not quite the ‘Zero Interface’ we discussed in last weeks session... more the cluttered AR imagined by many of the corporate makers of Design Fictions such as Corning, Samsung and of course The Microsoft future of NFL DesFi from February this year: 

WELCOME COHORT OF 2016

We will be creating Design Fictions (DesFi) using a game design approach to develop and demonstrate micro-solutions within complex systems... considering human experience, advancing technologies, environmental impact, resilient business models...

Design Fiction is the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief about change http://www.experientia.com/

Some of our favourite DesFi examples:

Bruce Branit, World Builder: https://vimeo.com/3365942

Microsoft: https://youtu.be/oKqzeoMCU0c (attached video)

Scanadu: http://www.scanadu.com/

Sumsung: https://youtu.be/XyIvSIY0MTM

Corning: https://www.youtube.com/user/CorningIncorporated 

Smart Design: http://smartdesignworldwide.com 

Our Industry Partner for 2016 Marek Kowalkiewicz: PWC Chair in Digital Economy http://www.chairdigitaleconomy.com.au/the-chair/

DesFi - Considering the past to design for the future

Introducing 2nd year Interaction Design undergraduate students to my favorite topic - Design Fictions (see sample slides from todays lecture above). It sparked a thoughtful and quite hilarous discussion as we shared stories of our own histories with digital interfaces (specifically social networks)... and thoughts of possible future scenarios.

This was my last lecture in this series for this course. This year I experimented with various techniques to engage the students in a large lecture theatre to participate more vocally and critically... some things worked and others were a tad awkward... but it’s the best fun Ive had in such a formal and vast learning environment for years. A special thanks to this years cohort of Interaction and Visual Design students. I have thoroughly enjoyed your company, ideas and energy.

Exercising our green thumbs!

Top 4 images taken yesterday at our 2015 Green Screen (Chroma Key) workshop... In preparation for the production of their Design Fiction video prototypes.

Bottom 3 images of a 2014 student group making their DesFi video prototype (for the Brisbane Airport) using green screening techniques. See their final video here: http://designfictions.tumblr.com/post/87560454080/eq-wall-video-prototype-using-green-screening

And a 2013 group project (for the Brisbane Airport) http://designfictions.tumblr.com/post/52206781226/terrific-results-on-the-airport-of-the-future

And another from a student of the 2012 cohort (for the Cube Installation): http://designfictions.tumblr.com/post/24095327255/catjoise-prototype-the-laugh-park-josie see Josie’s project tumblr here: http://catjoise.tumblr.com

Some fun examples of green screen used in film production:

The magic of Hollywood green screen effect, 2011: https://youtu.be/mCXE9cNzcgI