Designing alternate futures with speculative design

6 examples of combining science fiction world-building techniques with design to create prototypes of future artefacts

Damien Lutz
UX Collective
Published in
6 min readNov 25, 2020

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Modular architecture suspended in the sky — a reworked photo by Pierre Châtel-Innocenti.
Photo by Pierre Châtel-Innocenti on Unsplash

Speculative Design is a design practice combining science fiction world-building techniques with design to create prototypes of future artefacts to provoke thinking and discussion…

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