Shah Harini Archit

IR3596

UG190498

This research explores science fiction as resource for designing futures for the Global South context to create a shift in the traditional design approach to solve complex problems. It employs tools of decoding the zeitgeist of the nation through narrative building, visualizing the scenarios using a AI tool to generate commentary in the worldview on Global South and reodering the world to understand its logic. Through this process the abilities of design change to include the chain of decision making also a starting point for the design process to make it more informed one. 

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Introduction to the subject of exploration

Contents of the report

Chapter 1: Reading

Chapter 2: Plot diagramming 'Shit Flower'

Chapter 2: Plot diagramming 'The Pain Merchant'

Chapter 3: Visualising 'Shit Flower'

Chapter 3: Visualising 'The Pain Merchant'

Chapter 4: Performing taxonomy to establish a new order of the world

Chapter 5: Prototyping an idea from the story to exist in the current world

Design inquiry and epilogue