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Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need

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Specky to Futures - The Future's Not a Given

When we place borders around our collective imagination, it makes long standing issues appear increasingly intractable and dystopian futures much more inevitable by the day. Specky to futures are design approaches that essentially create high resolution visions of potential realities. Once you decide on a future that you might prefer for yourself, you can then think through backtrack to the present moment so you can identify steps that might actually be able to take you there. These days, some speculative futures are designed to be experiential in digital form.

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