Speculative Needs — Tatiana Toutikian

Personal Project | Workshop Series

Speculative Needs XOXO

Engaging designers in critical explorations around future services through provotypes.

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About this workshop series

This workshop explores the re-imagination of future services through the help of futures thinking methods. It consists of examining weak signals, doing in depth trend research, to come up with visions for diverse futures. These prototypes that mix design thinking with critical design serve as a catalyst to seeing systems and services that we might inhabit with in the near future.

selected press

Dezeen “Lebanese students anticipate future human needs for Beirut Design Week exhibition"

Design Indaba “From harvesting fungi from the body to hormone infused cocktails, are these the products of the future?”

DAMN Magazine “Daisy Ginsberg also expressed her appreciation for Tatiana Toutikians Speculative Needs XOXO Exhibition at BDW, a collaborative project between nine Lebanese university campuses”

Monocle Radio “One of the most thought-provoking showcases was an exhibition called ‘Speculative Needs’ by the Mena Design Research Center. We sat down with the project’s curator”

FRAME “DIY DNA manipulation and flesh coins – exhibition speculates on future needs”

Near Future Laboratory’s LSN Global “Beirut – The Speculative Needs XOXO exhibition explores the purpose that design will serve in the future.”

Design Futures Methods to build the Futures Service Canvas

Provotypes

Algorithm Shift

A wearable device absorbs the music history, web browsing cookies, and other searches of another person. This allows the algorithm that knows you all too well to recalibrate and give you less narrow suggestions.

DNA Weddings

As genetically engineered babies become the norm with CRISPR, why not gift your best DNA asset a bridal shower rather than gifting your couch. That way you can engineer a baby that can compete with the beauty standards of this unforgiving world.