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Join us for Imagining Future Everydays, 11 June 2024, in Eindhoven

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Save the date: Imagining Future Everydays
Tuesday 11 June, 13.30–17.00

Kazerne, Paradijslaan 8 5611 KN Eindhoven, Netherlands (15 min walk / 5 min cycle from Eindhoven Centraal)

Join us in the beautiful surroundings of Kazerne for an afternoon of experiences from TU/e Industrial Design’s Researching the Future Everyday course (taught by Dan Lockton, Lenneke Kuijer, and Emilia Viaene, with Femke Coops and Sacha Prudon).

This year we’re tackling three intersecting themes:

plus: 

  • activities exploring imagination & futures from our community

  • contributions from the IMAGINE project

Everyone welcome — drop in, stay for as long or as little as you like. More details to follow (including the exhibition catalogue). Please sign up so we know roughly how many people are intending to come (for refreshments).

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/imagining-future-everydays-tickets-902480532567

More about Researching the Future Everyday

When we imagine “the future” we are not acting in isolation: we are doing our imagining in a broad sociological and cultural context which influences what we believe to be possible or desirable. As designers, we are also often in a position to make “our” visions of futures come into being, in conjunction with technological innovation, but also against a backdrop of a world facing significant crises and transitions, in climate, health, inequality, social justice, and biodiversity loss. How can we negotiate these vast questions responsibly?

This course combines a speculative and critical design approach, drawing on work in experiential futures, with insights from other disciplines, in the arts, humanities, and social sciences (and in fiction) addressing aspects of how people imagine everyday life in different futures. This enables using design methods to explore alternative, transformative perspectives on futures, with a foundation of knowledge and insights beyond design itself.

Course guide | 2023 projects (PDF)