Speculative design

After an altercation with a tutor, Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Yi-Fei Chen created this visual metaphor to show her struggle with speaking her mind.

What are people like in 2040? From No-Tech-Zones to Borderless Citizens, redefine work-life balance and discover Mini North Koreas.

How far will we go to alter our bodies, nature and the universe? These five design projects ask questions about our future.

STOCKHOLM – International designers present the future of domestic environments.

Our devices are increasingly becoming the primary medium through which we relate to one another. Through a series of speculative hardware interventions, Networked Intimacy envisions the potential of interpersonal relationships in the connected age.

This Dementia Simulator headset designed by Central Saint Martins graduate Di Peng lets wearers experience symptoms of the disease for themselves

Haus-Rucker-Co. “Environment Transformer” the “Flyhead,” 1968 In the late 1960s, a group of architects in Vienna decided to see what would happen if they created architectural designs that had the ability to alter a person’s state of perception or consciousness, using sensory enhancement or deprivation. Haus-Rucker-Co. “Environment Transformers” left to right - the “Flyhead,” “Viewatomizer,” and the “Drizzler,” 1968 Comprised of Laurids Ortner, Günther Zamp Kelp and Klaus Pinter (and later…

NeoTouch is a speculative design project that envisions the future of haptic technology in the form of a haptic communication device that allows people to touch