Project

The Human Use of Technology

Summary

The project is the result of an exercise based on a model of design research involving the careful selection and study of a cluster of designed artifacts from the past, to contextualize a vision of the future that expresses a set of values. The subject for this exercise was the human use of technology.

Tools

Rhino 6 Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop

BACKGROUND

The Human Use of Technology

For this exercise, I was prompted to consider a topic area in some relation to my thesis, then look 50 years into the past of that topic and 50 years into the future, selecting between 3 to 5 designs at each decade that represents the primary values of that period. My chosen topic for this activity was the human use of technology.

Below is a timeline of all past future technologies, beginning from the year 1970 to the present, along with their corresponding values and decades.

DESIGN

Designs and Values of Preferred Futures

After tracking out the human use of technology from the past to the present, I began to speculate what some preferred future designs and values might be.

Depicted is a timeline of all preferred future technologies, from the years 2030 to 2070, along with their corresponding values and decades.