Everything around us is someone else’s dream, a vision that someone had of the future. We are living in cities and environments that have been designed by people of the past and present. As mentioned by Heskett “design is a natural extension of man, which respond dynamically to human nature and culture.” It is essential for designers to be able to imagine how the future could look, as the visions and ideas could be possible solutions, that could be realized in the future.
In the book “Making”, Tim Ingold wrote “A technologically enhanced sensitivity, brought into the service of hands-on engagement with materials in making, could genuinely enlarge the scope of humanity, rather than further eroding it.” (Ingold, 2013). This means that technology
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Vial sees design primarily as a “generator of human existence that proposes possible experiences”.‘ (Folkmann, 2013)
As humans we are creators - by reflecting on the mistakes of the past, we could find solutions for the future. As Herbert Simon said that “devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones”. Thus design is the human capacity to shape and make things that give meaning to our lives. As time is changing, with it culture and values change, which makes people curious of what the future will bring. “Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.” (Robert L. Peters)
As humans it is natural to envision and realize new possibilities. This is how design is used as a means of human beings to create meaning and experience. We use design to give shape and structure to the world, by creating material forms and immaterial effects. Is it possible for a human mind to make sense of the present while also finding ways to explore the
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‘The expression of fascination we have towards technology, is a way of unpicking the different hopes, fears, promises, delusions and nightmares of technological development – especially how scientific discoveries move from the laboratory into our every day life.’ (Dunne & Raby, 2013)
Technology plays a growing role in both the material and immaterial culture of todays design objects through the use of miniaturized microchips and computing.
Microchips are one of the greatest technological inventions that enable information processing that it carries, with it a tendency toward creating new possibilities and organizing knowledge in new ways. Furthermore, in order to imagine how a future could look like, people usually work from what is already existing and developed. Thus, microchips and “smart” technologies imply to set the ground base for technology in the future.
Modern technology has been a driver of design and conversely, design has indicated new directions for