In Bespoke Futures, our class looked at what kind of future world we as designers would want to live in. Since the movie Blade Runner, all images of the future have been either of utopic societies in futureistic cities wearing white jump suits, or distopic societies where humanity lives underground and fights the robots that rule the decomposing earth above. We as a society can not grasp the idea of choosing a future we would actually want to live in. A question also came up of is the future already here, but just distributed unequally globally?

So in this elective class, we were tasked with designing something that we would want in a future world. Looking at current trends in technology it is easy to see that the exponentially growing archive of information will continue to expand and grow increasingly harder to navigate. In the last 100 years, human beings have recorded more data than all the previous years of human existence combined. What would happen if you had a way of easily navigating this growing wealth of information in a quick and easy way. What would that afford you? How would your life be better? This is what prompter me to work on the idea of a type of Archive Positioning System. Maybe it would take the shape of something as simple as a marble, that could be givene to everyone, promote sharing of wisdom, and be instantly accessible. Click here to view my final presentation of the APS.

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