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Unit 4: Producing and evaluating products
Quick questions on Speculative design and futures thinking: VCE Product Design and Technologies
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What is futures thinking?Show answer
A core tool is thinking across kinds of futures. Possible futures are anything that could conceivably happen; probable futures are what is likely if current trends continue; preferable futures are the ones we would actually want. Speculative design works in the gap between probable and preferable, using provocative concepts to ask whether the future we are drifting toward is the one we want, and to imagine better alternatives.
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