Designing relations in Prospective Design
Channel: Usabilidoido
Date: 2021-11-12

Prospective design is a new design approach developed at Federal University of Technology Paraná inspired by Carnegie Mellon University's Transition Design approach. This short talk explains two of the differences between the approaches: 1) instead of focusing on alternative futures, Prospective Design focuses on alternative presents; 2) instead of framing situations as systems, it frames them as relations that may sometimes form systems but also other totalities that are not systems. We believe that Prospective Design is, in itself, a relation that discovers new possible relations in alternative presents, here and now.

This talk was part of the Transition Design Symposium held by University of Texas Arlington.