Bold Futures is a studio for innovation communications. We use design as a medium to envision plausible futures in order to assess their desirability and spark debate.
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PROJEKT: PERSONAL HEALTH RESPONSIBILITY++
The project speculates about the pervasive use of a system for monitoring personal health parameters and the associated implications. Bold Futures developed several near-future scenarios where people are augmented with a stretchable stick-on body electronic skin... read on
PROJEKT: SAFE CUDDLING
Here the Science-Fiction Prototype is a suit that allows for the innocent cuddling of children by helping adults to maintain their integrity. When the child wearing the suit is touched for too long or in inappropriate areas an alarm goes off, first gently hinting to potential ambiguities, finally assertively reminding (flashlights! bells!) the parent or care-taker and others around of their responsibility... read on
Energy Futures at FH Potsdam
Sometimes we get the opportunity to teach. “Energy Futures” was an intense three-week long course on speculative design led by Helge together with Prof. Wettach. The brief was to imagine relevant, plausible and engaging future scenarios that pose critical questions about our personal and collective energy management. The scenarios were then communicated through film. During [...]
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A project for Novo: Pristine Africa
NovoArgumente (the German sister mag of Spiked) is probably the freshest free-thinking, radically humanistic German publication there is. Thus we were very happy to produce a short film for a recent public debate they organised in Berlin. On the occasion of reaching the 7th billion human living on our planet the topic was “The Great [...]
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Open for Business!
Having worked somewhat secretively on setting up our studio during the last six months or so, we are now very excited to go official and start the year with a proper website. Thanks Kjen for doing all the coding, great work! Having acquired some of our first commissions we are up for a possibly turbulent [...]
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