FRAMES 4 FUTURES

FRAMES FILLED

This ESSENTIAL provides you with four broad categories for positioning and sorting approaches and settings for understanding FUTURES DESIGN and DESIGN FUTURES LITERACIES. Related work also appears in are provided in FRAMES 4 FUTURES (Frames folded)

CONTEXT

Definition:
Setting, environment, situation, circumstances, surroundings and linked conditions of an idea, concept, event, process, artifact, outcome or potential result

Elements:
Climate change, global-local tensions, political uncertainty, diminishing resources, viability, sustainability, circular economy, collective gain

CONDITIONS

Definition:
Term, state, factor, circumstance, limit, boundary, restriction, category, quality, provision prerequisite or factor that impacts on a place, qualities process, persons, event or outcomes 

Elements:
Contingency, indeterminacy, flux, rapid change, unpredictability, flexibility, degrowth, repurposing, assemblages, networks, opportunities, distributed

COMPLEXITY

Definition:
Various, different, linked, interrelated elements, parts, processes and systems in detailed, dense, complicated, obscure, contingent, rich, multiple, intricate, diverse, dynamic, collected situations and relations 

Elements:
Interconnectedness, overlaps, intersectioning, multiplicities, differential, multimodalities

CULTURES

Definition:
Social, group, interests, conventions,, organisations, behaviours, practices, aspirations, expectations, experiences, stories, performances, expressions, creativity on shared views, beliefs, values, fields and knowledge exchange

Elements:
Plural, socio-technical, networked, collective, trust, non-hierarchical, experimental, agnostic, co-creative, resilience

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8. SHAPING FUTURES DESIGN TERMS

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