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Whose dreams are ‘the stuff the future is made of’? The dreams of CEOs? Technologists? Business people? Or the dreams of everyday people? In this paper I will talk about a journey toward a future being made from the dreams of everyday people. I will describe how we are learning to catalyse, capture and collect their dreams and aspirations. I’ll do so by showing examples of ‘tools’ we give people so they can express themselves visually and verbally. Then I will tell how we are beginning to work with people, using their dreams and aspirations to inform as well as inspire the design development process.
‘Dreams are the stuff the future is made of’ (Jensen, 1999)
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Sanders, E.BN. (2000). Generative Tools for Co-designing. In: Scrivener, S.A.R., Ball, L.J., Woodcock, A. (eds) Collaborative Design. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0779-8_1
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