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In May 2023, I ran a Life-centred Futures Workshop with Speculative Futures Sydney.
The workshop was set in 2030, where participants designed with future tech, life-centred design, and a non-human persona to speculate a future life-centred version of an everyday product
In four teams, we explored a future where the world prioritises repairing and reusing over making new things by designing a future, life-centred version of an everyday, ubiquitous product that uses a lot of resources and creates a lot of landfill—mattresses.
Designing a sustainable and regenerative mattress and system
We used strategies from The Life-centred Design Guide and Future Scouting with future tech innovation and localised wisdom to redesign the manufacturing, supply, use, and reuse of mattresses, millions of which are made every year unsustainably and end up in landfill.
Non-human persona—protecting the River Systems
To make the system regenerative, we also explored how the future life-centred mattress system could regenerate the non-human it impacted—the river systems that get polluted by its manufacturing and landfill.
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