51-753 Design Center: DeXign Futures

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

The 21st century brings us a world that is changing at exponential rates with increased uncertainty. Products and services are designed and developed faster, and their shelflife increasingly disrupted by new offerings. As design disciplines engage in larger, more complex societal problems, new methods and skills are necessary. Urgent problems such as the UN sustainable development goals and climate change require new ways of thinking and acting. Planetary level problems impact peoples everyday existence within the biosphere, and require shortterm design action alignment with longterm vision goals. Unfortunately, traditional design thinking is not enough to solve such planetary scale problems. The term dexign, refers to an experimental form of design that combines design thinking with futures thinking. In this course, students learn how to align shortterm design to longterm timescales.

Prerequisites: none listed

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