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SPECULATIVE EVERYTHING
Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming
Before setting the theme of the graduation project, I read the book "Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming" as a guide, leading me to the design field that I have never been exposed to.
Research of the theme
In the process of thinking, I hope to find something that is very close to life, even real enough that people won't question about it, Simultaneously I'm trying to explore a possibility in the environment of many "real" existence, I found that "Time" will be a very suitable theme to this project, because "time" is always been as a "reality" thing to our daily life, and in reality, it's always been a choice rather than a must.
At first I was thinking that the time system of "24 hours" a day is a common thing for us, and history has recorded many different calendars, and the time division is different in different eras, The only thing that can be confirmed is that the divided aliquots are divided into more and more by time, so in the future, there will be a more divided time system.
Test
I made two different clocks(16/32hrs) and gave the clocks to 18 people with different living habits to use, trying to find out some cool idea.
Sadly, I couldn't get any idea from this test, because people can easily figure out the 24-hour time based on the position on the clock, in short, it’s to difficult to live without the 24 hour system, but I also found that the only way to experience a 24-hour life is to make people "unable" to convert the time, and the only way is to “redesign” the time system.
(In fact, the systems of time in history are all using different units, we can only be sure that they divide the day into different equal points, but we can’t accurately convert the same time point between different time systems.)
Process of making design fictions
Exhibition
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