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Speculative Design: Challenges

The challenges which might face with speculative design are as follows:

• It cannot be entirely fictional. It needs to relate to evidence and possible paths to the future.

• There needs to be a set expectation that this is not just prediction.

• Although it uses fiction and speculation to design future products, services, systems, It still needs time to step back, imagine and follow things through to the logical conclusion.

• It is not a traditionally defined methodology

• Speculative design prototypes (or prototypes that emerged as the result of speculative approach) are  extremely interdependent with the imagined context for which they have been  initially designed, and therefore, to become understandable, they require their story to be told in a clear and intelligible manner that is closest to our everyday experience.

• It can stray too far into the future to present implausible concepts or alien technological habitats, the audience will not relate to the proposal resulting in a lack of engagement or connection

http://dvk.com.hr/interakcije/2015/05/12/introduction-to-speculative-design-practice-eutropia-a-case-study/