'Future Experiences'
November 2023- January 2024
The Brief
This project asked us to explore emerging ecologies of health heritage and habitat through the design of speculative future worlds and experiences which envisage new ways of working and living in 2033/34. We were asked to apply a life-centred approach which considered more than just human entities. In this project I collaborated with experts in the fields of sustainability, technology, wellbeing and health.
The project was split into two parts- in part one, myself and four others were given 'Future Working Habitats' as a title and asked to work as a group to create a future world. Part two allowed me to further explore one topic that arose from our future world and develop this individually.
Part one
This project was in collaboration with researchers from the University of Glasgow which allowed me to discuss ideas and seek opinions from experts in health, economics, psychology, and sustainability. We began with research collecting insights and knock-on effects. A couple of main insights that inspired this project were the benefits of the four-day work week, and a statistic by the World Economic Forum on the Future of Jobs which cites 65% of children in primary school now will be doing jobs in the future that do not exist yet.
We decided to create a world which allowed people to sync their work schedules to their circadian rhythm. We proposed future working is no longer confined to the traditional 9-5 but instead should synchronise to the natural cycle of the seasons and individuals' circadian rhythms, fostering an interconnected relationship between society and the environment.
In terms of work, in the future we propose automation has brought about an increased need for new jobs, promoting rapid skill-based learning that encompasses a wide range of expertise through collaboration.
For our first expert input day we built a very early prototype of our exhibition to communicate visually and allow the experts to 'step in' to our world to better understand us. We proposed used this activity as research by asking the experts to attach sticky notes containing what they would do if they had more free time in their day.
We then had to finalised some things about our idea, we decided this felt most correct as an outside organisation but not governmental that would be hired by businesses to integrate a holistic approach into existing workplaces. We decided on the name HOLI which stood for the Holistic Organisation for Life Centered Innovation.
We presented our final mini prototype for exhibition along with the branding, world manifesto, colour palette, and global map which illustrated how our organisation would work on a global scale and allow teams across the world work harmoniously while following sheduales more suited to them.
Images from our Work In Progress Show held at the Advanced Research Centre Glasgow.
Part two- Individual
Future Design Agency Specialising in Work Culture
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For my individual project it became clear to me through doing the group project I wanted to focus on the work area. I began with research and insights then presented a very early version of the system I envisaged for my future design agency. I wanted to do this visually so the experts could understand my thoughts easier.
The idea for my agency was that create tailored projects and ideas to each client they worked with, this example was a solution for an architecture firm with morale issues. I created a brand book which talks through how the agency works.
Images from the WIP Show
As the individual part of this project was a work on progress for the show it is not complete yet and the final version will be displayed at my degree show in May along with my self-initiated project I am currently working on into the future of brand experience.
