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Hi everyone, great work today. We?re excited to see your projects get into motion, really cool ideas building.
We?ve updated the course content. Please see below.
- Lecture Slides: all lecture slides are now online, including Maja & Andrea?s (week 4) & today (week 5).
- Key Readings: you can find the key readings for the course in the files folder.
- TSF MA Thesis Topics: for those that missed it, the MA thesis topics for the Technology & Sustainable Futures group are at the following link.
- https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/studier/masteroppgaver/technology-and-sustainable-futures/
- Mandatory Game for Lecture 6: please remember to familiarise yourself with this game for the next class.
- https://play.half.earth/
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Hi everyone, hope you?re doing well & thanks for your work and focus on the course, so far.
This week, we will explore the methods of design fiction & science fiction. The class will begin with a lecture, focusing on fiction & AI.
Mandatory Class Material
The second part of the class will be group work, and we will be discussing the following episode of Black Mirror: The Entire History of You (season 1, episode 3). Please watch in advance of the class. The episode is on Netflix. Try to use you...
Hi all,
Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow! We'll be honing in on (what we think is) an important social challenge significantly impacted by digital technology, and we'll work on a) how to diagnose and identify consequences and b) use futures and design skills and methods in efforts to mitigate/address the challenge. This will be quite similar to what you'll be doing in the assignments and exam, so we encourage you to take part! We'll also give you some time to brainstorm the group's topic/angle on your projects and get input on that tomorrow.
Three sources you can read before tomorrow:
Hi all,
Great meeting you yesterday!
Here are a couple things you can start reading/checking out if you want to:
- A brief introduction to futures studies: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-17387-6_1
- An article I wrote on scenario analysis and science fiction: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166497224000269
- A podcast on Syd Mead (that I mentioned yesterday) and the linkages between design and futurism: https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/imaginary-worlds/id916273527?i=1000704634610
Hi all,
First of all: sorry for the lack of information thus far!
And welcome to the first lecture later today (OJD Sem Prolog, 12.15).
Enya and I look very much forward to meeting you and to get this course started. We'll be diving into design and sustainability this semester, with a specific focus on using the future and methods from futures studies to design more sustainable futures.
The trip starts today, and remember that the first lecture in mandatory.