system-&change

“through the materialization of radical ecologies of interventions in the future, students, even in groups with undesirable scenarios, experienced a sense of playfulness in the process of materializing radically distant futures. Other groups employed Hopes and Fears in the future in response to their emergent ecologies of interventions, providing fertile ground for mapping speculative lines of alignment and disagreement between current and future stakeholder groups. These findings emphasize the need for playfulness and future -forward empathy toward long-term ecologies of intervention. This suggests that creating the space in a product development schedule to include openings for playfulness and empathy building, which are grounded in research, provides richer and empathetic imaginative ecologies of intervention that can contribute toward the transition to a sustainable fashion future.”