Organic Matter for Your Growing Plants!

1D. Documentation of Prototype – Morgan Tallack – 12932176 Design usually ignores dark and complex emotions and therefore creates a restriction onto itself in what it can or can’t convey. With my prototype, I wanted to challenge our ideas of ones digital self and their physical embodiment. As technology continues to eclipse us, we […]

Static Ceremonies

1C. Primary Research – Morgan Tallack – 12932176 (Ross, 2018) I went to visit my grandma and grandads final resting place. A beautiful cemetery overlooking the cascading hills in the dry countryside of Camden. Today marked the anniversary of my grandfathers death, so I thought I’d accompany my mum as she went to pay her […]

What was my future?

1B. Positioning – Morgan Tallack – 12932176 Prior to the commencement of Lab A, I naively and selfishly only visioned my future ahead. My future was bright and didn’t involve any outside influences which could change that. Once I started looking in to a designers role in the current environment and how we have the […]

Our Imagined Future

The Evolution of Death

James J. Hughes’ Ph. D is a really interesting look in to cryonics movement and how it is redefining societies definitions of death. Although it isn’t the strongest correlation to our scenario, it is a great trigger to creatively thinking about the social, environmental, political, and individual implications of the increase in technology associated with […]

How to Future

Futuring is a term which focuses on developing prophecies to warn the present on different future trajectories based on current trends in reality (Zulin, 2017). These trends can lead us down a path towards a utopian or dystopian future and therefore we must analyse and evaluate these futures to create a present which works towards […]

Are we there yet?

As we move through this world we are constantly changing. We aren’t who we were one second ago. This means that we have to constantly redefine our lives and paths. As there is no metric on how we define Dystopia and Utopia, how are we to know if we have in fact already reached it? […]

Building Utopia During the Height of Depression

Really interesting pictures from the construction of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York “The World of Tomorrow.” Check it out!

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