Abstract
This paper presents the results of a training and research activity with the purpose to explore future scenarios that were configuring after the COVID-19 pandemic. During the lockdown months, the pre-existing problems of the world emerged, exacerbated, making difficult to read the context and its dynamics, producing unexpected and disruptive effects. DA engaged students, professors, researchers and professionals to discuss together the impacts and opportunities raised by the pandemic. The DA experience used the scenario thinking approach to explore the possible futures. The scenario is interpreted here as a useful reference framework to guide the creation of contextual value by mapping the possible trajectories of innovation. The digital dialogues of DA take on the complexity given by the dissolution of disciplinary boundaries, creating moments of confrontation for horizontal and vertical reflections, elastic and profound at the same time. Interpretations and perspectives were considered essential sources to produce visions capable of inspiring future design opportunities. With DA it was possible to verify how there is ample room for an emotional component in the current scenario thinking. Today the construction of the scenarios assumes an exploratory, reflective and adaptive attitude, capable of synthesizing alternatives that are not probable, but plausible and possible. The contradiction of the results is itself part of the process, indeed encouraged so as to derive sufficient narrative ramifications: to move deftly between the interdisciplinary stimuli/inputs is design, which par excellence works as director of the process and mediator between the knowledge involved.
Presenters
Margherita TufarelliPhD Student, DIDA Department of Architecture and Design, University of Florence
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Scenario Thinking; Digital Dialogues, Design Opportunities, Interdisciplinary stimuli
