Future design

Abstract

Future design is a pedagogical project to introduce the studies and methodologies of the future at university. It has been offered to students of the Master Barcelona Design (MBDesign) since 2017 and this book is nothing more than a compilation of notes, instructions, and exercises for the classes, developed and improved over 5 editions of the course.

The compilation of the cases presented as well as the proposals and exercises to be worked on has been conceived as a tool to support the practice of the discipline known as futures intelligence, futures studies or simply futures.

The content focuses on the field of design and aims to facilitate innovation. The proposed methodology tries to combine a certain academic approach with the application of techniques and methods for the study of a field of work in which each student’s design project is situated.