Scenario 4
The first task we were given was to choose our future scenario from the book above. It helped us to immerse ourselves into one defined future, identifying problems within that scenario and choosing potential provocations.
Four of us read each scenario and explain to the rest of team member. The scenario that we chose is No 4, where the society was summarised to be “Individual responsibility first, react to and mitigate challenges”. In this society, we outlined the main characteristic of that future,
1, The role of government shrinks
2, Companies only focus on short term profit
3, Social inequality worsen
4, Healthy becomes a symbol of status
The four items are also the provocations that we are interested in. Of course, among them, the social inequality is almost the centre problems of all. In addition, we also consider technology is another factor that can not be ignored. Technology, as a tool, is neutral but potential hazard is down to how is tool used.
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Brainstorming is another thing we did after identifying our scenario. Miro is our tool that we mainly used in this step, mindmap being the specific funcition. In fact, we did 3 different mindmap, two are centred around “what does scenario 4 look like?”, another is focus on food.
When we food was in the centre, we explored the topics including: health, business, environment, technology, policy, education, habits & society.
By choosing future scenario and brainstorming how food looks like in this scenario, we not only immerse ourselves into the future, but also explore future foods shape, how future society reshape foods form, what the food industry will be, how the environment will be impacted…
We also throw many questions to us, for example,
1, Government borrow too much from big corporates, soon gov loose more power to big corporates?
2, Poor people may need to store food in body in case they will be starving in the next days?
3, Instant meat, instant veg; similar to instant noodle?
Of course, those provocations are preliminary, but it does help us to think further.
