This is an object created in the summer of 2030 by a collective that reacts to a letter received by all art-school-institutions. The format represents the first reactions and became a viral object that contaminated society in the five years after. (Each ball represents an individual comment and there’s place for more comments.)
During the next fifteen years art-schools reinvent themselves based on the comments of the sculpture. Because of this D. Valstrik and his colleagues have been banished from a public position.
The Cone helps categorise future scenarios into four distinct buckets:
And lastly, preferred futures, the Holy Grail of speculative design. Preferred is where you place the scenarios you want to happen.
This is where most design practitioners operate. It describes what is likely to happen unless there is an extreme disturbance or turmoil.
Plausible refers to what could happen. It’s where scenario planning and speculation live.
At the edge of the cone is what might happen, even if it’s difficult to imagine.
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