Duration: March 2024 - Jan 2025
Thanks:
Quicksand Design Studio
Sahil Thappa
Sonata Dev
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What if we shifted from the singular vision of ‘Big Tech Future?’
Experiential Participatory Futures
Design Futures
Design Research
The project is part of the graduation thesis at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Divergent futures of social media captures the future imaginations of Gen Z around the socialising technologies of today and explores these wider narratives not governed by the “Big Tech Platforms."
The Viral Vibes toolkit is aimed to to co-imagines future scenarios and stories around the hidden forces that the social media of today works on. These include algorithms, privacy, trends, surveillance, synthetic portrayals - which guide the social media access and usage.
The project aims to design tools to capture patterns in expressions around - concerns, desires and fears for the social media of tomorrow
The Viral Vibes toolkit is aimed to to co-imagines future scenarios and stories around the hidden forces that the social media of today works on. These include algorithms, privacy, trends, surveillance, synthetic portrayals - which guide the social media access and usage.
The project aims to design tools to capture patterns in expressions around - concerns, desires and fears for the social media of tomorrow
From the Viral Vibes workshop conducted with the second year Design students from the Department of Design, IIT Delhi.
Viral Vibes workshop conducted with the final year design students at NID, Ahmedabad
Viral Vibes workshop conducted with with the Speculative Design
Studio at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India
Studio at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India
