TY - JOUR
T1 - Merging art and design in foresight
T2 - Making sense of Emerge
AU - Selin, Cynthia
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Cooperative Agreement No. 0937591 . Any findings, conclusions, or opinions are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the National Science Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - Emerge: Artists and Scientists Redesign the Future, hosted by Arizona State University in 2012, united artists, engineers, bioscientists, social scientists, storytellers and designers to build, draw, write and play with the future. Over three days, and in nine different workshops, participants created games, products, monuments, images and stories in an effort to reveal the texture and feel of emergent futures. The Emerge workshops drew from a burgeoning field of future-oriented methods that infuse art, design and information technology into the development and delivery of scenarios and design fictions - a constellation of practices I call "mediated scenarios". This introduction and the articles in this special issue, work to make sense of these emerging practices, and of Emerge itself, in order to develop appreciation of this rising genre. In doing so, the papers in this issue ask critical questions about the nature of these novel forms of foresight practice and investigate the trade-offs and potencies involved in the workings of mediated scenarios.
AB - Emerge: Artists and Scientists Redesign the Future, hosted by Arizona State University in 2012, united artists, engineers, bioscientists, social scientists, storytellers and designers to build, draw, write and play with the future. Over three days, and in nine different workshops, participants created games, products, monuments, images and stories in an effort to reveal the texture and feel of emergent futures. The Emerge workshops drew from a burgeoning field of future-oriented methods that infuse art, design and information technology into the development and delivery of scenarios and design fictions - a constellation of practices I call "mediated scenarios". This introduction and the articles in this special issue, work to make sense of these emerging practices, and of Emerge itself, in order to develop appreciation of this rising genre. In doing so, the papers in this issue ask critical questions about the nature of these novel forms of foresight practice and investigate the trade-offs and potencies involved in the workings of mediated scenarios.
KW - Art/science
KW - Design fiction
KW - Scenarios
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U2 - 10.1016/j.futures.2014.12.006
DO - 10.1016/j.futures.2014.12.006
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:84930180239
SN - 0016-3287
VL - 70
SP - 24
EP - 35
JO - Futures
JF - Futures
ER -