projects
notes
designer
engineer
and sometimes
rice farmer
engineer
and sometimes
rice farmer
designing for
human
existence
on human autonomy
spring + summer 2024
org:
freelance
client:
japanese trading company
design team:
kenta kondo - design lead
yuriko yamaguchi - design research
alisa koegel - interaction design
hanako - doggo emotional support
process:
strategic foresight
design fiction
output:
14 high fidelity artifacts from the future
you work at the lost and found department at seattle airport.
two lost carry-on items were brought to your desk.
boarding pass for sep 09, 2034.
aisle seat secured by donna.
starducks latte ordered by donna.
lounge access secured by donna.
one bag tells a tale of a business-woman agonizing whether to upgrade her ai business implant at the cost of her sense of self.
another bag tells a tale of a single-father systemizing childcare while yearning to protect his infant from constant corporate exposure...
the speculative design exploration investigated the social implications of ai-human decision-making, implanted tech, and realtime corporate surveillance. what might human volition, autonomy, and free-will look like? how might people indulge, protect, protest, and rebel? as the invisible hand pulls ai innovation, what will humanity lose and find?
two sets of carry-on items of two individuals from a super-subliminal future were crafted for a futuring leadership workshop. this was a commissioned design work for a japanese trading company to think collaboratively and constructively about our collective future.
30 participants collected future signals from their everyday lives such as newspaper articles, blogs, random public occurances. we synthesized these signals, imagined possible worlds, and designed everyday dilemmas of individuals in the ai-native world.
in an autonomous world, what does human autonomy look like?
who am i...donna?
>design fiction
>future of decision making
>convenience vs autonomy