{"id":837,"date":"2022-09-01T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T19:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp_dev\/?p=837"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:36:49","slug":"shape-our-future-through-speculative-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/shape-our-future-through-speculative-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Shape Our Future Through Speculative Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Outside-the-Box-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Outside-the-Box-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Outside-the-Box-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Outside-the-Box-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Outside-the-Box-1-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Outside-the-Box-1.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ryan Fedyk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course aims to provide students with the analytical skills to interpret current trends, policies and problems into futuristic (5+ years) product proposals and the thought leadership and communication skills to clearly articulate and pitch those ideas.&nbsp; Projects can range from how prolonged quarantine will impact home exercise to the future of entertainment in self driving cars.&nbsp; Students will research and explore an opportunity space of their choosing where they will infer future problems from current trends then create a speculative solution.&nbsp; They will package their product thinking into a pitch deck and present back to the class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The class format will include lecture, in-class and out-of-class design exercises that apply the concepts covered in the class lecture and a final presentation and critique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COURSE OBJECTIVES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the completion of this course, the students will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conduct research and analysis of current trends<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn frameworks and skills to help interpret current trends into future problems and opportunities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Communicate their thinking by creating clear and compelling taxonomies, personas and user journeys<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Create a series of detailed user journeys of their solution\\nKnow how to create a storytelling pitch deck with a user centered focus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This course aims to provide students with the analytical skills to interpret current trends, policies and problems into futuristic (5+ years) product proposals and the thought leadership and communication skills to clearly articulate and pitch those ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courses","category-tier-2-courses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6694,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/6694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}