Yosuke Ushigome, the self-styled ‘creative technologist’ and director at design studio Takram on the power of speculative design to make ideas tangible, humanise big data, and encourage healthi...
Yosuke Ushigome, the self-styled ‘creative technologist’ and director at design studio Takram on the power of speculative design to make ideas tangible, humanise big data, and encourage healthier behaviours
After graduating from the RCA, he freelanced and worked briefly at design studio Superflux in London before Takram approached him in 2014 to help start its London office. Heavy Load, a speculative project by Takram featuring an automatic toileting device designed for an exhibition at the Museo Della Merda, Italy Japanese design
Another example of using design to try and engage people to think more about the future is the RISAR prototype app, presented at the 2020 Design Indaba conference in Cape Town. On the app, people are asked simple questions that have a direct effect on the rising sea levels, like how they commute to work. Depending on their choices and their physical location, the app predicts and demonstrates how they might experience the rise of sea levels.
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