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		<title>Speculative Futures </title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2022 22:59:58 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Speculative Futures&#38;nbsp;Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-create the Cities We Need
Speculative Futures is out in the world! It explores how this emerging field can help us imagine and build more resilient, equitable cities.
Speculative futures – design approaches that visualize new and potential worlds – move us beyond what currently exists into the realms of what could be. Long used in art, film, fiction, architecture, and industrial design, the tools employ speculation to provoke, imagine, and dream into what lies ahead. Written for futurists, strategists, urbanists, artists, and readers looking to enact city-wide transformation, the book offers creative paths toward urban resilience, using design tools that already exist.

For more information on buying the book, takeaways from the text, and diving into more design resources on&#38;nbsp;speculative futures, and a how-to guide for using them,&#38;nbsp;check out the previous links and following paragraphs.&#38;nbsp;

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Images courtesy of Karl Baumann, Roadmap 2050, Lisa Jackson, and the Canadian Film Board

The Problem 
We’ve limited our imaginations of what cities can be for too long. Predictive and persuasive modes of speculation have resulted in urban spaces that perpetuate the status quo. Legacies of inequality, where exclusive development approaches fail to include the concerns of marginalized residents, are metastasizing into crises. By tying our visions of urbanism to doing things the ways they’ve been done before, we’ve locked ourselves into conditions primed for dystopian demise.
The Tools&#38;nbsp;
Speculative futures are design tools to create the resilient cities this century demands. Imagining what a future might sound, smell, and taste like provides visceral connections to the impacts of potential change. The more vivid an experience of an alternative future is, the more robust our responses to it become. The stronger our responses become, the deeper our debates about preferred alternatives can go. The more we debate, the more we can identify and enact the futures that work for more of us. 

Speculative futures tools help us: 
challenge the status quo&#38;nbsp; increase individual and social resilience balance short-term needs with long-term change, reorienting our understanding of cities toward more adaptive capacity&#38;nbsp;create more collaborative and equitable development by supporting cooperation over persuasionshift our collective imagination toward resilient possibility and cultivate more proactive planning as a result
The Takeaway 
By giving us permission to imagine, speculative futures encourage a shift in attitude from “What’s the problem?” to “What’s possible?” In doing so, they question our assumptions about existing norms to see if they’re really the paradigms we want to shape what lies ahead. Connecting current moves to long-term change helps ensure that the tactics used to solve short-term problems can address the fifty- or one-hundred-year issues as well. Speculative futures offer practices that create the forward-thinking, adaptive plans that modern uncertainty requires.

Most importantly, the approaches aren’t exclusive or specialized. Using speculative futures doesn’t depend on getting a degree or buying expensive software. Anyone can employ them, because everyone has the capacity to imagine. When more people feel empowered to envision their preferred futures, they’re more equipped to advocate for their needs. More people promoting the futures they want encourages design and planning professionals to embrace the role of facilitators, to focus less on enacting their own ideas and more on coalescing diverse viewpoints into cohesive plans. In this way, speculative futures cultivates self-determination, creating cities more likely to work not just for the few, but for all.

Praise

“In order to change our cities, and the world, we need to first imagine a better future—a future we might not have imagined at all. Johanna Hoffman’s Speculative Futures is a guidebook to getting there—one that will help us move beyond the pessimism and polarization of our time, and build the better, more caring communities we need.”

—Richard Florida, author of The New Urban Crisis

“Speculative Futures is about a mindset. It is about a kind of practice for building worlds that may be our best hope for effecting meaningful global change. This is a kind of design for the generation that is now having to imagine powerfully, thoroughly, and confidently…Hoffman captures the value of approaches like design fiction, reminding us that speculative futures taps directly into our imagination—the one evolutionarily critical faculty we all have that may very well be what saves us from our current existential crisis.”

—Julian Bleecker, co-founder of Near Future Laboratory and author of Design Fictions for Asynchronous Urban Computing 

“By playing with the rich, wide, and varied tapestries of possible futures, we stand a better chance of identifying the most feasible and optimal forms that can possibly exist. In this fascinating text, Johanna Hoffman provides us with a guide on how to do so. Using examples from the past and speculations from the near future, she’s created an important book for our times.”

—Michael Batty, professor of planning at University College London and author of Inventing Future Cities and The New Science of Cities

“In this remarkable book, Johanna Hoffman tells the story of city futures. This is not just the world of visioning the future city, but the gritty world of citizen meetings and foresight workshops…Hoffman’s details provide both inspiration but also an illumination of the politics of futures design. In a journey of past, present, and future, speculative futures illuminates the way.”

—Sohail Inayatullah, UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies for Sejahtera Centre for Sustainability and Humanity of International Islamic University Malaysia and Tamkang University

“There is a timely and important gift here, not only for the worlds of urban planning and architecture where she began her career, but for agents of change everywhere. Anyone who aspires to more vibrant and resilient futures at all scales should read this book, and I hope they will.”

—Stuart Candy, PhD, associate professor of design at Carnegie Mellon University

“Hoffman’s book is an invaluable primer for anyone trying to make sense of an uncertain and unstable future. Combining personal narrative with a wide breadth of research from fields from psychology to climate science and everything in between, she offers a path forward to grapple with difficult questions lit by empathy, justice, and radical hope.”

—Sara Jensen Carr, author of Topography of Wellness and assistant professor of architecture at Northeastern University 

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		<title>What Could Be </title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2022 15:53:33 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>What Could Be&#38;nbsp;

What Could Be is a series of possible futures generated through community workshops using science fiction to plan for long-term climate change impacts. The work is based off science fiction prototyping, a kind of speculative futures tool for envisioning, evaluating, and creating potential worlds.&#38;nbsp;


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Possible futures are rendered in a combination of visuals -- created via collage and text-to-image AI programs -- as well as audio narratives. Rendered futures inform strategic interventions to translate possible trajectories of change into implementable action. Iterations of What Could Be were installated in Barcelona, Spain and San Jose, California in the summer and fall of 2022.&#38;nbsp;
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		<title>Future World Vision</title>
				
		<link>https://johannahoffman.com/Future-World-Vision</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2020 17:32:17 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Future World Vision
American Society of Civil Engineers

Working with worldbuilding studio Experimental, I led research and narrative design for Future World Vision, an interactive educational video game exploring urban life in 2070. Based on in-depth research, the project is a detailed dive into how our cities could change over the next half century, providing space to explore how engineering can become a strong foundation for thriving and achievable urban futures.&#38;nbsp;

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		<title>Sea Level Stories </title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2016 22:15:41 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Sea Level Stories 
Market Street Prototyping Festival 

Sea Level Stories is a time travel machine that doubles as on-the-street-living room, data visualization and narrative collection tool. Installed in San Francisco in 2016, it invited people to explore how sea level rise changes the San Francisco Bay Area – in the past, present and future – and share their thoughts on what those impacts mean for their lives. 

By walking inside the space, visitors were transported 200 years into the future, when sea levels have risen roughly 25 ft and the world is a much warmer place. They landed in the living room of a young urban designer renting them the use of her apartment through whatever version of Airbnb exists in the year 2200. The apartment was complete with objects useful for navigating the future San Francisco, including a paddle for a canoe, inflatable water wings, dry shampoo and waders for exploring more watery areas of the city. All objects came with audio instructions for guests' ease of use.  


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Before leaving, participants were invited to answer a series of questions on their hopes, dreams and ideas for adapting to future change. The answers to these questions fed into ongoing work on how to cultivate more approachable dialogues about climate change and its impacts on our lives and cities. </description>
		
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		<title>Tell Me More</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2018 18:19:11 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Tell Me More 
Installation

Tell Me More is a place for people to reflect on the 2018 fires that ravaged California &#38;amp; what the impacts have meant for them. The project marries sequences of story-listening with story-collection in an interactive installation.

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Standing next to the each stool is an audio recording totem, where visitors are invited to reflect on what they’ve heard via other speakers &#38;amp; add their own perspectives to the conversation.


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While this iteration focuses on the impacts of the recent Camp Fire, Tell Me More is a prototype for a new kind of civic engagement. Installed in public spaces, it creates a context for strangers to reflect &#38;amp; converse with each other about issues of change &#38;amp; vulnerability in our built environments, creating broader community-based conversations about the challenges &#38;amp; opportunities of modern urban life. From impacts of climate change to economic inequality to gentrification, Tell Me More is a collective space for processing our concerns about the ways our communities &#38;amp; cities are changing.

It’s also a valuable data collection tool. Gathering people’s reflections provides valuable insight on the words &#38;amp; phrases people use to talk about change, about their fears, hopes &#38;amp; dreams. Their answers, comments &#38;amp; questions are critical for cultivating more approachable dialogues about our collective urban futures.
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		<title>The City is a Material Bank</title>
				
		<link>https://johannahoffman.com/The-City-is-a-Material-Bank</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:57:21 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>johannahoffman.com</dc:creator>

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		<description>The City is a Material Bank
Research

The City is a Material Bank is an exploration of the role that speculative futures can play in augmenting urban resilience. A research-based vision of urban life in 50 years, it investigates what a city might become if it embraced aspects of the circular economy, an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and the continual re-use of resources. While many researchers and leading foundations advocate for its economic and social opportunities, the circular economy has yet to take wider hold. 


The City is a Material Bank presents a narrative experience where the shift has already taken place, asking viewers to reflect on what it took to make such changes and what the impacts on urban space and daily life could be as a result. The piece invites people to envision what could be made from the reality of what is.&#38;nbsp;


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		<title>Future Vision</title>
				
		<link>https://johannahoffman.com/Future-Vision</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2017 03:45:41 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>johannahoffman.com</dc:creator>

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		<description>Future Vision 
Prototype 01

Future Vision is a tool to help communities engage with disaster and resilience planning before disaster strikes. The more information and tools our cities and communities have ahead of time, the more resilient we become when natural hazards occur. Future Vision provides these tools, increasing community resilience to climate change by spreading information, awareness and civic collaboration in public transit hubs. 


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A series of modular add-ons to existing transportation hubs, Future Vision models become community outreach, data gathering, and planning tools that educate users about what’s going on in their areas, spreading the word about emergency plans, and asking for public feedback on how to improve those plans before major changes strike.&#38;nbsp;
In all models, interactive touch screens are embedded within modular furniture, presenting &#38;amp; collecting information in ways that encourage physical interaction. All models provide charge outlets &#38;amp; wifi, welcoming users to linger &#38;amp; absorb more information. 

The Future Vision system is designed for deployment in transit hubs across the globe. If a region has internet access and an existing transit network, Future Vision can provide valuable resilience planning services. Local and national governing bodies are invited to deploy these models in their urban centers, retrofitting the digital education experiences where necessary to respect local language and cultural norms. 

Future vision was a finalist in the 2017 Best Climate Practices Competition and the 2017 MIT Anticipating Climate Hazards Competition.</description>
		
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		<title>Climate Stories - Your Living Room in 2075</title>
				
		<link>https://johannahoffman.com/Climate-Stories-Your-Living-Room-in-2075</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2019 23:17:05 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>johannahoffman.com</dc:creator>

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		<description>Climate Stories - Your Living Room in 2075&#38;nbsp;

Climate Stories is both the next step of Sea Level Stories and&#38;nbsp;an interactive speculative future that cultivates community-based climate action. A multi-sensory exploration of what the world could be like in 55 years, the project serves as a collective space for processing concerns about our changing climate and creating more grassroots engagement in how we plan and prepare for our future.&#38;nbsp;

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The format is a living space from the year 2075 -- the Co-World apartment space. Co-World, a former coworking firm, has become the go-to operator, owner and manufacturer of mass housing. You are temporarily renting this apartment from them -- you re-up your rental agreement&#38;nbsp;on a day-to-day basis. This&#38;nbsp;daily model is the norm, as the&#38;nbsp;flexible nature of work and the&#38;nbsp;proliferation of products that&#38;nbsp;make housing responsive to&#38;nbsp;a new inhabitant’s needs and&#38;nbsp;choices enable people to be&#38;nbsp;more mobile in their living styles.
By walking inside the space, visitors land in San Francisco 56 years in the future, when sea levels have risen roughly 3 ft, urban air pollution has exploded and the world is a much warmerplace. The apartment comes with objects useful for navigating the future, including inhalers and air filtration devices. All objects come with associated augmented reality experiences that provide additional information about utility, materials and the climate shifts that have resulted in their necessity for daily life in 2075. 


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an interactive virutal reality experience of the living room space and component objects (designed and created in collaboration with placexr.org and SJSU design students and supported by the Buckminster Fuller Institute)
Before leaving the experience, participants are invited to answer a series of questions on their hopes, dreams and ideas for adapting to future change, and to link to direct action initiatives to address the climate crisis.</description>
		
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		<title>Waterfront Development Strategies</title>
				
		<link>https://johannahoffman.com/Waterfront-Development-Strategies</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:19:07 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>johannahoffman.com</dc:creator>

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		<description>San Francisco Historic Piers Waterfront Development Strategy

When asked by the Port of San Francisco to propose development ideas for their suite of historic, underutilized piers, I devised a strategy that places community engagement at the heart of the development process.&#38;nbsp;

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This means taking advantage of the interim before long term development projects begin, to program the piers, increase civic engagement and collect data on how people actually use and relate to the waterfront. By combining pop-up programming with analytic and creative community engagement tools, the SF Port has the opportunity to create deeper, more trusting relationships with San Francisco's communities while prototyping solutions that work for the targeted piers. 

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		<title>Waterspots</title>
				
		<link>https://johannahoffman.com/Waterspots</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2017 23:59:56 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>johannahoffman.com</dc:creator>

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		<description>Waterspots
Prototype 01

Waterspots are water catchment &#38;amp; treatment hubs combining rain, fog &#38;amp; dew harvesting with public gathering &#38;amp; education space. As climate change progresses, capturing fog &#38;amp; dew for drinking purposes will become an increasingly important tool for water security. At the same time, climate change will cause rainfall in many semi-arid climates across the globe to decrease. Rain events that do occur are slated to be stronger &#38;amp; shorter. Maximizing our capacity to capture that water when it falls is vital to enhancing water resilience as climates shift.


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Waterspots accomplish both of these goals. Layers of plastic filament mesh span frames of aluminum pipes. Acting much like the needles of redwood trees, the mesh captures passing fog and transfers it to storage &#38;amp; treatment containers below. 
Waterspots also serve as public gathering spaces. Seating allows people to linger, learn about&#38;nbsp;water resilience issues, chat with each other&#38;nbsp;and enjoy a rest from the day. Very much the watering holes of the 21st century, Waterspots bring water catchment &#38;amp;&#38;nbsp;treatment to the public realm, creating accessible spaces to celebrate the value of water.

The first functional prototype was installed in Berkeley, California in the fall of 2017.&#38;nbsp;</description>
		
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