Workshop. Speculative Edu

With 20 other students from all over the world, I participated in the SpeculativeEdu Future Friends workshop, an educational project funded by ERASMUS+ to strengthen speculative design education.

Set in a near-future where automation has become commonplace, The One With the Programmable Friend takes as a point of departure new social realities of living with robots. Programmable and stereotypical, the robots’ behaviors reflect different characteristics of their respective owners/human friends, who hold contrasting views towards these algorithmic friends. As crises emerge in the plot, themes such as robot rights, employment, and love are explored.