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Design Innovation Futures Sciences

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Research Frontiers in Speculative Design and Critical Futures

Investigates how design can probe alternative futures and challenge present assumptions through speculative prototyping and critical making practices.

Speculative Materialities: Objects as Future Witnesses
Dark Futures: Designing for Societal Collapse Scenarios
Participatory Worldbuilding in Post-Truth Contexts
Speculative Governance: Prototyping Alternative Political Systems
Temporal Dissonance: Design Across Competing Future Timelines
Speculative Ecologies: Designing Multispecies Futures
Critical Nostalgia: Retrofuturism as Political Resistance
Speculative Embodiment: Designing Non-Human Futures
Dystopian Literacy: Teaching Through Worst-Case Narratives
Speculative Infrastructure: Imagining Systems Beyond Present Constraints

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