Beyond the need to train future scientific managers in engineering techniques, Centrale Marseille is concerned with their openness to the world and their ability to develop a sense of responsibility and cooperation.
This workshop was part of the "Train'ing" module where students have the opportunity to open up to Culture and Society "while raising questions around themes related to societal and environmental issues".
Living in the future of 2040
Design Fiction workshop for engineering students
Dates
October 2021 - February 2022
Collaboration
Workshop
Talks
For the 2021 edition, we invited the students to discover a practice halfway between art and science: design fiction, a prospective method for projecting themselves into a probable future and imagining solutions to future behaviour.
Conceived with the designer Lucie Cassisa, we chose the subject "Living in the future in 2040" according to the UN's SDGs. In an optimistic spirit, we have taken the side of utopia by encouraging useful and sustainable innovation, and the ecological transition.
The young engineers had to use critical thinking, ingenuity and creativity to come up with a scenario, design a representation of their idea through a prototype, and present it.
Each group of students was able to focus on a theme of their choice:
- Urban mobility
- New education systems
- Welcoming climate refugees
- Ethical forms of housing
- Self-sufficient food production
In addition to the workshop, two talks were programmed for the students, from artist duo AATB and cultural producer Marie Albert.
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