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Designing Future Experiences Exhibition – University of Glasgow ARC

University of Glasgow ARC – 6 until 13 February 2025

Reciprocal Systems of Health in the Climate Era – Designing Future Experiences Exhibition

Design speculations for the year 2035 by Product Design Students from the School of Innovation and Technology at the Glasgow School of Art in partnership with the University of Glasgow.

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University of Glasgow ARC, 11 Chapel Ln, (off Byres Road), Glasgow G11 6EW

About the Exhibition

An exhibition of two futures-focused courses undertaken at the Glasgow School of Art’s School of Innovation & Technology in partnership with the University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre and Nesta, the UK’s innovation agency for social good. The two courses span the social to the technological exploring themes ranging from personal, public and planetary health, to the values of collaborative creativity in defining how citizens and Artificial Intelligence might live and work together in the near future.

Product Design at the GSA’s School of Innovation & Technology provides a unique and holistic overview of design’s role in future society. The BDes and MEDes programmes equip students with a diverse skill-set and thorough understanding of design’s evolving role as the creative and strategic link between technology and society. Both programmes offer opportunities for international study, as well as the possibility to participate in live collaborative projects with businesses, academic, and public-sector organisations. As a result, the graduates have a unique, multicultural, post-disciplinary design perspective and practice that prepares them for all sorts of creative possibilities.

PD4 Designing Future Experiences 

The BDes Product Design course Designing Future Experiences is a live, collaborative project which partnered with the University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre. This year’s project brief is entitled Reciprocal Systems of Health in the Climate Era. The students, faculty and experts co-researched, explored and designed speculative future worlds of personal, public, and planetary health leading towards preferable ways of living and working in ten year’s time. The exhibition includes the products, services and experiences designed for the communities who might live and work within these envisaged futures.

PD5 Creating Collaborative Futures 

The Master of European Design (MEDes) Creating Collaborative Futures course partnered with Nesta, the UK’s Innovation Agency for Social Good. This project’s innovative teaching model involved our students working together as a design team in partnership with Nesta, with experts in AI, and design industry stakeholders to explore the Energy Transition and Collective Decision-making in ten years’ time, blueprinting a collaborative future system which brings together human, artificial, and ecological intelligence.

Free entry

Opening Times

• Thursday 6 February – 09:00 – 17:00
• Friday 7 February – 09:00 – 17:00
• Saturday 8 February – closed
• Sunday 9 February – closed
• Monday 10 February – 13:00 – 17:00
• Tuesday 11 February – 09:00 – 17:00
• Wednesday 12 February – 09:00 – 17:00
• Thursday 13 February – 13:00 – 17:00

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