Introduction to Speculative Achaar
Channel: Hasgeek TV
Date: 2020-07-20

a4 / aChaar is an inititative to explore speculative design, critical design and design futures, seeded by the design practitioners, Dhruv(@decoydhruv) and Praveen (@imp8lite). As design researchers, we find this domain to be quite exciting, inclusive and full of crazy surprises. We want to map out toolkits to help foster the culture of speculation and futures thinking amongst creatives, technologists, academics, students e.t.c.

We have been piloting extrapolatory discourses through our community of fellow design practitioners. We have conducted workshops & open discussions over future scopes of alternative dissents, apprenticeship in crafts, with a particular focus in the Indian handmade context. We will be talking about speculative design and design futures and how we have been navigating through this journey taking cues from Indian context of cultural and socio economic structure. Our agenda is to eventually map out various toolkits to help foster the culture of speculation and futures thinking and to document & share our process(es) along this journey.