Open AccessDesign Futures in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Author(s) -
Potter Cher
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
proceedings of the african futures conference
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2573-508X
DOI - 10.1002/j.2573-508x.2016.tb00071.x
Subject(s) - futures contract , mythology , sociology , data science , epistemology , architectural engineering , computer science , history , engineering , economics , philosophy , financial economics , classics
The worlds of Futures Studies and Design are both concerned with imagining and shaping change. The former uses social science methods to decode and interrogate the models, worldviews and myths that underlie the future scenarios we imagine; the latter offers physical prototypes that allow us to interact with these potential future transformations in the present tense.