Atlas of Weak Signals¶
During our Atlas of weak signals activities, we’ve been working through some exercises that promote the correlation of ideas, and of course, deep conversations among the class about the world, the realities that we all live through, and the implications of changes that the cards on the AoWS suggest.
You can check my excercise in Miro here:¶
Atlas of Weak Signals Deck¶
Atlas of weak signals deck.
Class excercise¶
For this excercise, my team and I drew Carbon Neutral Lifestyle & Refugee Tech. With the random triggers Microbiotic Literacy & Neighborhood FabLabs. And the Areas of opportunity being Supply Chain Innovation & Circular Economy.
As you can see on the picture, the conversation was very interesting, touching on topics of access, results, and changes in the way people consume things. Here’s where my idea for the Hierarchy of needs that I added later came from.
Full Deck Spread and my additions¶
Here you can see how the full deck looks when open, I’ve added a couple of cards to each category: Designing for the Anthropocene
Raising the population’s hierarchy of needs. For this card, the thinking behind it is that using Abraham Maslow’s famous hierarchy of basic needs, we have an (imperfect) way to see how society might evolve towards a preferable future if the population’s basic needs are met in a higher percentage than they are today.
Random Triggers
Star Trek: Thinking about a future post scarcity society as a trigger for people to ideate with a different mindset than a more collapse-based scenario.
Latin America: Thinking about a specific part of the world might also lead to interesting results when analyzing possible scenarios.
Areas of opportunity
User Experience: Having the user experience as the main point for areas of opportunity might work as a great lens to scenarios things through.
Challenge
System: To think about a system as a way of executing the path for preferable scenarios.
Experience: Again, Experience as the challenge.
Initial Design Space¶
Human Machine Creative Collaboration + Climate Conscience
Reddit + Back to the future + Psilocybin
Ideation and Design Centric Reseach + Multi-Scalar Thinking + Design for Social Innovation
Building a Design Space¶
Here I went a bit crazy with references for each of the main subjects, including links to scientific papers to actually get some signals. I’m pretty satisfied with the available information for this.
Multi-scalar Design Space¶
Here I placed my references in the Multi-scalar framework, being careful to also think about the impact that these ideas might have in possible resulting scenarios.
Mixed Atlas of Weak Signals¶
Using both main signals, I concluded several possible avenues for research and continued ideation in hopes of creating positive scenarios for Human-machine creative collaboration FOR Climate Conscience.
Personalized Design Space¶
This is how my design space looks with the possible avenues for these subjects. I believe the interconnectedness of the subjects we are talking about might produce some very interesting results for projects during this master’s. (even though there are many more categories I’d love to explore)
