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Gaming Futures Literacy: The Thing from the Future (Persian translation)

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This is the translation in Farsi of the chapter "Gaming Futures Literacy: The Thing From the Future" from the collection "Transforming the Future" edited by Riel Miller and originally published by Routledge and UNESCO. Translation team: Reza Dehnavi; Atousa Poursheikhali; Somaye Nuri Hekmat; Ali Masoud; Pardis Pourshikhali. The full book in Farsi: <researchgate.net/publication/386175518>. This piece in English: <researchgate.net/publication/312016855>.
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

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 










١. Richard Slaughter
٢. Foresight culture
٣. Social foresight
٤. Alvin Toer
٥. Social futurism
٦. Anticipatory democracy
٧. H. G. Wells
٨. Riel Miller
٩. Steward brand 

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
١. foresight’s ‘experiential turn
٢. Futures
٣. Traci Fullerton
٤. Mary Flanagan
٥. Jane McGonigal
٦. Serious
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١. U.S. Naval War College
٢. massively multiplayer
٣. World Without Oil
٤. Superstruct
٥. Coral Cross
٦. Foresight Engine
٧. Design
٨. Experiential futures
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

 
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
١. Situation lab
٢. Carnegie Mellon University
٣. Je Watson
٤. Nesta’s Futurefest
٥. IndieCade
٦. Association of Professional Futurists
٧. Museum of Tomorrow
٨. UNESCO’s Youth Forum
٩. Lupton
١٠. prompt
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
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
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 



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ATOM

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
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PETA


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


١. artefact from the future
٢. Arc
٣. Terrain
٤. Object
٥. Future thing










 





























Weiding e r 







١. Compton
٢. Singularity
٣. Phrasal template




































١. Rilao
٢. Futures school

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
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
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

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

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
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
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







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




١. Combinatorial creative prompting system
٢. Ashis Nandy
٣. Imagination gym
٤. Extrapolation Factory

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٢. Wired magazine
٣. Jason Tester
٤. Institute for the Future
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١٠. ArtCenter College
١١. Near Future Laboratory’s Design Fiction Kit
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
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



MobilityVIP



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


١. Integral Futures literature
٢. ladder of abstraction
٣. Experiential Futures Ladder

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

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







 






 



 





 




١. Distinctive modes of thinking

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

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
١. Systems Mythology Toolkit
٢. Dylan Hendricks
٣. Dan Novy
٤. Joost Bonsen
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One of the enduring objects used to represent the technological future is the robot. This legacy means that its promise has the ability to evolve in accordance with our societal and cultural dreams and aspirations. It can reflect the current state of technological development, our hopes for that technology and also our fears; fundamentally though, after almost a century of media depictions and corporate promises, the robot is yet to enter our homes and lives in any meaningful way. This thesis begins by asking the question: how does an emerging technology (such as robotic) become a domestic product? In addressing this issue I draw from the theory of domestication and the method of speculative design to describe three possible technological journeys: how technology does not, does and could become a domestic product: 1. Technology does not make the transition from laboratory to domestic life. Robots have made countless departures from the habitat of the research laboratory, apparently headed towards the domestic habitat, but the vast majority never arrive. This observation leads to the identification of a third habitat and the current destination for the majority of proposed domestic robots – robot-related imaginaries. In this theatre-like environment, robots exist as either promises or warnings of a potential technological future. The habitat includes technology fairs, laboratory open houses, news articles and the films and novels of science fiction. I conclude by suggesting reasons why these visions of the future so often fail to become domestic products. 2. Technology does make the transition from laboratory to domestic life. Borrowing from the science of ecology and biological concepts of evolution and domestication, I make an analogy between the shift of habitats that occurs when an organism successfully goes through the process of artificial selection (natural to domestic) and the transition an emerging technology makes in order to become a suitable product for domestic use (laboratory to domestic). 3. How technology could make the transition from laboratory to domestic life. This section makes up the core of the thesis as I describe speculative design and how it can be used to present more plausible depictions of near-future technological applications. By stepping out of the normative relationship that ties technological development to commercial markets, speculative design opens a space for alternative perspectives, critical reflection and an examination of contemporary and near-future technological application. Throughout the thesis these theoretical investigations run parallel to the practice-based element, allowing for interplay between the two. This resulted in three projects that exemplify the speculative design approach applied to robots, inviting dialogue and contemplation on what a preferable robotic future might be.
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Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In "Speculative Everything," Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be -- to imagine possible futures. This is not the usual sort of predicting or forecasting, spotting trends and extrapolating; these kinds of predictions have been proven wrong, again and again. Instead, Dunne and Raby pose "what if" questions that are intended to open debate and discussion about the kind of future people want (and do not want). "Speculative Everything" offers a tour through an emerging cultural landscape of design ideas, ideals, and approaches. Dunne and Raby cite examples from their own design and teaching and from other projects from fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography. They also draw on futurology, political theory, the philosophy of technology, and literary fiction. They show us, for example, ideas for a solar kitchen restaurant; a flypaper robotic clock; a menstruation machine; a cloud-seeding truck; a phantom-limb sensation recorder; and devices for food foraging that use the tools of synthetic biology. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more -- about everything -- reality will become more malleable. The ideas freed by speculative design increase the odds of achieving desirable futures. © 2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All rights reserved.