The Future Room

The Innova Room of the Future imagines a blended household in the year 2049. In this talk, I describe the worldbuilding process behind its creation – including probes with the museum’s visitors, character profiles and short design fictions – followed by an illustrated walk-through of the room, including additions made after a workshop with expert colleagues who felt the room didn’t yet look “lived in”. I conclude with a discussion of lessons we might draw from this immersive, richly detailed speculative design fiction.

About the speaker:

Bill Gaver is Professor of Design and co-leader of the Interaction Research Studio at the University of Northumbria, London. With the studio, he has developed a portfolio of work over 25 years that includes research products, methodologies and conceptual insights for and about practice-based design research, with an emphasis on ambiguity, ludic design, and emergence.