num_pages: 224
description: How the emerging field of speculative futures can help us imagineand buildbetter resilient and more equitable cities.Speculative futures  design approaches that visualize new and potential worlds  move us beyond what currently exists into the realms of what could be. Inspired by art film fiction and industrial design the tools use speculation to provoke imagine and dream into what lies ahead. Written for futurists urbanists and artists looking to enact city-wide transformationand for readers at the intersection of disruption design and city livingthis book offers creative paths toward urban resilience using design tools that already exist.Informed by her years of experience in art urban design and architecture artist and urbanist Johanna Hoffman uses an interdisciplinary lens to examine how we can reimagine our cities as individuals as communities and on professional scales. Hoffman's blend of precedent studies research and professional memoir link longstanding issues in urban development with the processes and actions positioned to create the more resilient cities this century demands. The result is a dynamic field guide that uses speculative futures to imagine advocate for and adapt to modern scales scopes and speeds of change.This book is both for professionals in the urban design and planning industries as well as all people who resist received capitalistic technocratic ways of thinkingreaders who seek new solutions to old problems.
language: English
title: Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-create the Cities We Need
publisher: North Atlantic Books