post-covid story 001: Instructions for the Future / Valerie Danzer (AT)
The Covid-19 setting has made it challenging to speculate about alternative futures. Corona narratives and preventive measures dominate the discourse. The feeling of uncertainty fuels adversarial reactions and resistance, leading to conspiracy hypotheses and social control. In this climate of dystopian surveillance and the lockdown of feelings and interactions, we are looking for a more nuanced vocabulary and a more colourful range of possibilities for action. What are the ways out of a shocked society paralysed by order instructions during a pandemic? We create speculative design objects through which to track down the moods, fears, needs and desires in contemporary urban situations. By using augmented print objects in different scenarios, viewers can experience a range of possibilities for alternative realities that stimulate interaction. post-covid fictions are visual interventions in the city space to contrast dystopian realities with “smartness”, resilience, alternative images and colourful calls to action through speculative design.
A Design Fiction Project with Augmented Print by the Department of Visual Communication
Photo: Barbara von Rechbach
post-covid story 001: Instructions for the Future / Valerie Danzer (AT)
The Covid-19 setting has made it challenging to speculate about alternative futures. Corona narratives and preventive measures dominate the discourse. The feeling of uncertainty fuels adversarial reactions and resistance, leading to conspiracy hypotheses and social control. In this climate of dystopian surveillance and the lockdown of feelings and interactions, we are looking for a more nuanced vocabulary and a more colourful range of possibilities for action. What are the ways out of a shocked society paralysed by order instructions during a pandemic? We create speculative design objects through which to track down the moods, fears, needs and desires in contemporary urban situations. By using augmented print objects in different scenarios, viewers can experience a range of possibilities for alternative realities that stimulate interaction. post-covid fictions are visual interventions in the city space to contrast dystopian realities with “smartness”, resilience, alternative images and colourful calls to action through speculative design.
A Design Fiction Project with Augmented Print by the Department of Visual Communication
Photo: Barbara von Rechbach