Fiction, Fantasies, Fakes and Speculations

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Today's lecture and seminar were focused around the third studio brief, speculation. 

Looking at fiction, fantasy and fakes and understanding the way the world thinks now (and no just as futures) as if it was something other. Speculations are dreams from the present, just like fantasises are desires from the present. Fakes re-author the present; wrapping it in a charlatan fiction. 

In relation to the studio project it is important to think about where you are speculating the future from, we looked at some examples from the 1920's designed by Hugo Gernsback, an inventor, writer and publisher of the first sci-fi magazines. He speculated the future with these designs: Teleyeglasses, a 1.5 inch square television, the isolator, electronic jockeys and the Teledoctor. 

The future of technology is important when speculating as companies such as intel are looking at 'wearable tech' in relation to the fashion industry and also to help those that require prosthetics, the designers are looking at how we use clothing as a 'second skin' and what each individual person wants to show the world when they wear the tech. In the 'Make it Wearable' video Dr. Sabine Seymour says how she wants to focus on how our skin moves, changes colour, why the hairs on our arms stand up and apply them to clothing - making it move, change colour and show an expression of the person wearing it. 

Although we are speculating the future it does not necessarily mean it should all be about technology, this certainly wasn't the case for those in the 1920s.

To become speculative...
> To dream, to speculate, to imagine what the world could be 
> By being critical, problem defining, finding the parallel
> Be provocative and make the "not yet real" real

Seminar

The seminar was about still like sketching of the invisible. There were two tasks, the first was to read a passage and draw a map of the city or a scene from the city, the key words I took from this were: rides, wild, buildings, perfect, desired, dreams and memories. 
The second task was to again read the passage and 'Draw the Leveller' from this I took: elephant, resemblance, straight tusks, pyramid-shaped, pinned, flatten out the ground and tramp. 

 

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