Category: Themes
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2024 Theme 1: The Cabinet of Rarities 2050
Theme leaders: Dr Dan Lockton, d.j.g.lockton@tue.nl and Femke Coops, f.coops@tue.nl When a loved-one dies, we need time and space to grieve and let go, while the everyday carries us along and urges us to pick up the threads, reshape life, build new relationships, and explore new avenues. But when our world collapses due to societal…
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2024 Theme 2: Disputing Automated Decisions in the Future Home
Theme leader: Emilia Viaene, e.m.j.j.b.viaene@tue.nl Header image: Westinghouse Total Electric Home (1959) Background By evoking, exploring and critically questioning future scenarios where automated decision making (ADM) plays a significant role in everyday domestic life, you will explore alternative design opportunities for automation in the 2039 home. The smart home sector has made great promises in…
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2024 Theme 3: Challenging consumerism by design
Theme leaders: Dr. Lenneke Kuijer, S.C.Kuijer@tue.nl and Sacha Prudon, s.a.c.prudon@tue.nl Header image: UrbiCamp—image by Shams Hazim; concept owners Piet de Koning, Tjeu van Bussel, and Nina Boelsums. Background In this topic you will be exploring implications and opportunities for design to challenge consumerism by imagining alternative personas. The number of technologies normal living ‘requires’ today…
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2023 Theme 1: The Time-Travellers
Alternative titles: Prefigurative Hindsight or Imagination Interventions Theme leader: Dr Dan Lockton, d.j.g.lockton@tue.nl Background You and your team have been sent from 2038* back to 2023. You are time-travellers, sent specifically to intervene—via design—to enable people to imagine new ways of thinking and living. In the 2030s, with the effects of climate crisis and how…
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2023 Theme 2: Meet The (Un)Predictables
Theme leader: Emilia Viaene, e.m.j.j.b.viaene@tue.nl Header image: Westinghouse Total Electric Home (1959) Background The smart home sector has made great promises in the pursuit of comfort, convenience, and control for decades now (Aldrich, 2003). Even industries’ future visions of long days past had the same idea, for instance with the fifties’ RCA Whirlpool Miracle Kitchen…
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2023 Theme 3: Challenging consumerism by design
Theme leader: Dr. Lenneke Kuijer, S.C.Kuijer@tue.nl Header image: UrbiCamp—image by Shams Hazim; concept owners Piet de Koning, Tjeu van Bussel, and Nina Boelsums. The number of technologies normal living ‘requires’ today in Western societies is a multitude of those a century ago. Not only in terms of direct materials – next to ingredients sourced from…
