Speculative fictions from 2nd year students in BA Design+Change, Linnaeus University, for their course on Speculative Design. Sep, 2023

Speculative Design 2023

Where power is there is corruption and abuse. Who rules within the government? In the D.O.L.L. they are literally pulling the strings to make all the powerful politicians move at their will.

One voodoo doll for one politician, dead or alive. They are walking corpses, corrupt and abusive, but really is there any difference to today?

(Speculative fictions from 2nd year students in BA Design+Change, Linnaeus University, for the course Speculative Design)

Doll // Lissy

After a nuclear wipeout, we reinvent tools and weapons to rebuild humantiy again, but due to scarce resources, we battle with others to fight for essential resources. The weapons presented aim to reflect on the consequences of our actions and serve as a warning for us to act upon our present behaviours within conflicts.

(Speculative fictions from 2nd year students in BA Design+Change, Linnaeus University, for the course Speculative Design)

Modern weapons // Afzaal

Cutlery set made out of your animals/plants that you have previously taken care of well/had good connection with before eating it. In this way only using/consuming stress-free sources. It leads you to a more memorable dining experience. the project wants you to think about what you are putting into your body/why there is a difference between pets and livestock.

(Speculative fictions from 2nd year students in BA Design+Change, Linnaeus University, for the course Speculative Design)

Pet Approved // Bianka

EGON is a work-from-home chair that criticizes the lengths companies take to keep their employees working. The project speculates how working environments and ethics change in the direction of efficiency, while neglecting human behavior. EGON is equipped with several body reading features to maintain efficiency of work and can sustain one person for twenty-eight hours.

(Speculative fictions from 2nd year students in BA Design+Change, Linnaeus University, for the course Speculative Design)

EGON Workpod // Lovisa

It is time to need less and it's not as difficult as we might believe.

With this piece I challenge all of us, what do we really need in this world to be happy? Are there other ways we can fulfil our needs that are already within reach?

One ReCycle at the time.

(Speculative fictions from 2nd year students in BA Design+Change, Linnaeus University, for the course Speculative Design)

ReCycling Nomads // Jelmer

The effects of climate change are upon us and the weather grows more extreme and unpredictable. As electricity prices continue to soar, we must insulate our homes as best we can. Unfortunately, new technologies are patented, restricted, and used purely for profit. This is what a modular open design system for growing mycelium insulation panels might look like.

(Speculative fictions from 2nd year students in BA Design+Change, Linnaeus University, for the course Speculative Design)

Mycelium Generator // Miquel

The radical act of self-love

A bag full of loving words, how you can describe your body. Growing throughout your life, helping yourself to come back, appecriate what you have, who you are. Even in a world where most people love themselves, this object is needed, because on self-love you need to work on constantly.

Feel free to interact with it.

(Speculative fictions from 2nd year students in BA Design+Change, Linnaeus University, for the course Speculative Design)

Radical Self Love // Bee

This is LifePlug, the ultimate human charger. Stop sleeping and start charging.

The object represents a crucial tool in an alternate universe's society, which has evolved to be so fast-paced that they no longer sleep. To adapt, they've integrated booths with special charging air plugs throughout their cities, offering inhabitants a way to "recharge" without traditional rest.

(Speculative fictions from 2nd year students in BA Design+Change, Linnaeus University, for the course Speculative Design)

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LifePlug // Anja

Hania criticises the altering of human rights in the future. Speculating on current problems, like population decrease, the object proposes a dystopian future in which humanity has normalised trading children.

The project is influenced by the metaphor "playing with human lives", in which the gumball machine brings the phrase a little bit closer to reality.

(Speculative fictions from 2nd year students in BA Design+Change, Linnaeus University, for the course Speculative Design)

Hania // Dimana

A living glove made of moss helps you breathe clean air again in a world where arbor's bane disease killed most of the trees. It functions by the moss performing photosynthesis converting carbon dioxide to oxygen. The inside is aligned with micro-needles which help transfer the oxygen directly to your blood stream.

(Speculative fictions from 2nd year students in BA Design+Change, Linnaeus University, for the course Speculative Design)

OxyMoss Glove // Laura

The emotional machine is a machine developed by a group of neurosurgeons that allows you via electric microshocks to the brain and spine to finally understand other people’s feelings and physical sensations. The machine sticks to the skin through microneedles in the sensors and skin safe adhesives. Different machines connect to each other via bluetooth.

(Speculative fictions from 2nd year students in BA Design+Change, Linnaeus University, for the course Speculative Design)

Emotional Machine // Alessandra

Humeat is a speculative design that takes place takes place in a far dystopian future. In this world not only has most edible animals and plants gone exctinct, but the lack of food has also put all of humanity in danger. Humeat's intentions are to "solve" this problem by selling and humanizing consumption of human meat.

(Speculative fictions from 2nd year students in BA Design+Change, Linnaeus University, for the course Speculative Design)

Humeat // Felipe

You feel in danger. You press a button on your vest and it closes you into a touch proof bubble. The SafeME bubble is here to save and protect any women against any type of violence, harassment or abuse. Blue led lights reflect the heartbeat to show the emotion of fear as well as warning signs to step away.

SafeME bubble® // Nela

'The Gallery of Life' is a speculative design project aiming to criticize the way technological development seems to avoid certain aspects of our lives such as death. What would a tombstone and a cemetery from the future look like?

The Gallery of Life // Svetlana

In a world where humans are heavily dependenton AI, AI has become so advanced, self-aware and sentient that it was almost impossible to distinguish it from real life. Human-to-human communication has become very rare and the best way to communicate is through Cogin. Cogin is a communication helmet that facilitates thought-based communication.

Cogin // Sima Benni

SPECULATING DEATH: THE AETHER HARP
This circle-shaped harp is played during times of birth and death. The frame consists of light metal alloy and the strings are made of human hair. Life’s continuity in the face of death and death’s inevitability in the face of birth is a contrast that might be able to shake the current taboo around dying.