Future Goggles was my final year project on the BA Design course at Goldsmiths College.

In Future Goggles, I set out to gain a better understanding of how we think about the future. The theoretical perspective shifted from an expert-based form of predicting to an experiential process with an emphasis on empowering our own abilities to create future visions. I believe that we are all futurologists. We can all imagine and predict.

After a thorough theoretical exploration of this territory, the practical part of the project involved a series of workshops with children at schools. I invited the children to create and express their own visions of the future and designed specific tools and techniques to engage them in activities ranging from play-acting with ‘future goggles’ to drawing and story writing. The children thoroughly enjoyed the experience and came up with creative and interesting ideas about the future.

Responding to feedback from the teachers involved, I designed the the website www.futuregoggles.net. It provides suggestions, instructions and printable materials for teachers who wish to organize similar workshops. The website showcases some outcomes from the workshops. It is intended both as a resource and a forum for teachers who desire to engage young people in a creative process of thinking about the future.