Playing With Uncertainty. Experiential Design And Sensemaking For Radical Futures.

This research proposal seeks to explore and report on individual and collective responses to a design intervention or provocation using design fiction and experiential futures tools and methods. By deliberately invoking uncertainty - an amorphous concept that expresses both the probability that certain assumptions made during design are incorrect as well as acknowledging the potential influence of unknown facts on future states and therefore the possibility of intended and unintended consequences - we are experimenting with the premise that to design is to engage with an exploration of ideas towards the yet to be. Our proposed experiments aim to extend the integration of design and futures for conference attendees by revealing and extending uncertainty and providing tools for making and prototyping future visions and the artefacts that may populate those visions.