Key details
Date
- 21 September 2021
Author
- RCA
Read time
- 3 minutes
We live at the crossroads of a past that ended abruptly and a future that has not yet taken shape. Designers have a responsibility to keep up with the sharp realities and constantly reassess and reimagine the role of humankind within them.
Key details
Date
- 21 September 2021
Author
- RCA
Read time
- 3 minutes
“Recognising 'The New Normal', we believe the design of digital devices and environments should embrace a humanist approach and look beyond merely adapting to change and onto flourishing through change. The past year has put into focus the technologies we depend on, but also the the most fundamental social constructs of family, community and state. Our generation-old notion that the future is better is suddenly not at all certain. For the future to be better, Design should be questioning and rewriting the contracts we have with technology, with society and state. In this third iteration of the joint studio project, OPPO and the RCA invited students from the RCA School of Design to take a radical approach to envision how accelerating technological and social changes can inform the design of products and ecosystems, manifesting key values and opening new better paths for humankind.”
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