The Speculative Design Basics course at School of Critical Design teaches participants innovative approaches to product and service development, drawing on technological advancements and design trends.

School: School of Critical Design
Course: Speculative Design Basics
Location: online
Course dates: continuous enrolment
Application deadline: continuous enrolment

Speculative Design Basics from the School of Critical Design is an introduction to speculative design and creating organisational impact. Speculative design is the design of future products and services to understand the impacts of emerging technology and social and cultural trends.

In this course, you learn about the basics of using speculative design within business and organisational contexts to create meaningful impact. Across 42 concise online lessons and regular virtual tutorials, you'll get up to speed on new thinking, methods and techniques related to future practices.

We focus on practical applications of the approach and prepare you to apply what you have learned to your own practice or organisational settings.

This course is perfect for researchers, strategists, designers, product leads, program managers and business leaders. Speculative design is fast becoming an essential and critical tool for today's business in our complex world.

You'll leave equipped with a new approach to product and service development and innovation, a new lens for systems thinking, frameworks for connecting long-term considerations and near-term action, freshly ignited creativity and energy for change and an approach to shaping organizational change, strategy and purpose.

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Top image: Speculative Design, J. Paul Neeley, 2016.

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