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The Futures of the City Design Fiction and Urban IxD
Sjors Timmer IxDA London 2014
1. The futures of the city 2. Urban IxD and Design Fiction 3. Urban IxD summer school
The futures of the city
1.
Futurama 1939 GM’s vision of the future
To New Horizons Designed by Norman Bel Geddes
Today’s vision of tomorrow’s city
Intelligent Operations Center IBM Smarter Cities
Smart City Barcelona Cisco
Intelligent cities Philips
What language is used to talk about cities?
This is not an argument against the Smart City
Or in favour of a human centred approach
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
– Frederik Pohl
The futures cone By Dr Joseph Voros (via Tobias Revell)
The futures cone By Dr Joseph Voros (via Tobias Revell)
The futures cone By Dr Joseph Voros (via Tobias Revell)
2. Urban IxD & Critical Design & Design Fiction
Urban IxD
[Urban IxD is] the artful integration of people, place and technology.
– Marcus Foth
Via urbanixd.eu/opinions
Urban IxD
Urban IxD Project
Urban IxD Summer School
The production of fictional concepts [as] a suggestion for how to proceed and understand the problem space
Via Urban IxD Summer School Reader
How to go about doing that?
Urban IxD
Critical DesignDesign Fiction
Urban IxD
Design Fiction Critical Design
Critical Design uses speculative design proposals to challenge narrow assumptions, preconceptions and givens about the role products play in everyday life.
– Dunne and Raby
Via Dunne and Raby
Robots Dunne & Raby
Urban IxD
Critical DesignDesign Fiction
Design Fiction uses a fictional frame to make an argument about a potential future by demonstrating that future in a context that a large public audience can understand.
– Joshua Glen Tanenbaum
Via Quora
For more on critical design and design fiction read the great article Tobias Revell at
bit.ly/criticaldesign
3. Urban IxD Summer School
The aim was to produce fictional concepts as a suggestion for how to proceed and understand the problem space of Urban IxD
Via Urban IxD Summer School Reader
Split
Dom mladih (Youth Centre)
Photo via UrbanIxD
Photo viaUrbanIxDPhoto via Pika Novak
Photo via Niels WoutersPhoto via Chris Hand
So what was made?
Fabrika Split By Sandy Claes, Karey Helms, Pika Novak, Sjors Timmer
Photo via Diana Edelman
Ministry of disinformation
Auro City Mara Balestrini, Sandro Engel, Ena Hadžić and Assunta Matassa
Techno Shaman By Divya Viswanathan, Daria Casciani
You can find all the projects’ videos and background stories at
bit.ly/urban_ixd
Thank youSjors Timmer, IxDA London 2014
