Travelling in the future scenario of Energy Ville, with exceptional guides, Thomas Markussen & Eva Knutz.

The time has come to take the second Pill of the course. Directly from the Social Design Unit at the University of Southern Denmark, Thomas Markussen & Eva Knutz guide the Future Studies module. 

Future studies is a multi-disciplinary field that offers our novice service designers a broad set of well-described predictive techniques such as extrapolation and forecasting valuable for researching and imagining sustainable futures. Nowadays, design has recently gained increasing traction in Future studies because the various ways in which unknown futures can be explored through speculative design practices provide new insight into the art of anticipation.

Students are watered down on future studies, through lectures focusing on key concepts and various practices of future making. Furthermore, these practices are compared with and distinguished from tools and approaches found within speculative design and design fiction. To spur critical discussions, students are invited to a hands-on experience with tools and techniques to develop products and services for the future.

Our lectures are the directors of a new scenario that students will approach: Energy Ville. Through a “what-if” journey, the class will be challenged to design a better future for a city facing critical issues in energy provisions in the next decade. They are called on to design a future user scenario and a service design proposal using anticipatory techniques and future-making. We look forward to discovering the future of Energy Ville.