The Futureproof Series.
Postcards
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Futureproof Series
Postcards From the Future
As part of designbivouac’s Futureproof Series, this collection offers a set of visual explorations and concise narratives designed to spark conversation, challenge assumptions, and inspire strategic thinking about what lies ahead.
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
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Methodology
Futurecasting is a creative process where designers explore various social, cultural, economic, political, and ecological factors to envision potential futures. Rather than predicting the future with certainty, futurecasting focuses on imagining possible and preferable scenarios that inform long-term strategies. It helps businesses understand the forces shaping the future, anticipate changes, and create proactive strategies. Preferable futures align technology with human needs while ensuring sustainability from a planetary perspective.
“The best way to predict the future is to design it.”
Frameworks
The Futureproof: Postcards From the Future series draws on frameworks, such as Joseph Voros’s Futures Cone and backcasting, to guide its exploration. By working backward from a desirable future state to our current reality, backcasting helps identify the necessary conditions to achieve a preferred vision. The aim is to encourage thoughtful consideration of our shared future and inspire active participation in shaping it.
Visual and Narrative Approach
The series' visual approach integrates AI tools into the creative process, blending visuals with written narratives that evolve organically as each postcard from the future takes form. The series is designed to inspire deeper reflection on the necessary actions to make our collective preferred future a reality.
Futureproof: On the Go Food Printer
Well, Weyland has done it again. Their Food Printer FP-400 model is one of the best purchases I have ever made. It is so convenient and offers endless meal possibilities. Just pop in Protein, Veggie, and Seasoning gel-encapsulated pouches in the back of the unit and print out a preferred portion of your favorite meal in minutes.
Future Narrative
Weyland has done it again. Their Food Printer FP-400 model is one of the best purchases I have ever made. It is so convenient and offers endless meal possibilities. Just pop in Protein, Veggie, and Seasoning gel-encapsulated pouches in the back of the unit and print out a preferred portion of your favorite meal in minutes. Entrees are steaming hot, delicious, and nutritious. It’s a massive improvement over my grandpa’s lunchbox.
The FP-400 delivers convenient, nutritious meals using plant-based gel packaging, thereby eliminating plastic waste. Printed foods, sourced from gel pouches, are sealed in a moisture-locking gelatin coating that melts away after a few minutes at serving temperature. Even the grey condiment containers dissolve days after use.
Implications
As advanced food printers become available, product shipping is massively simplified. The variety of product SKUs drops significantly, streamlining food distribution and lowering the cost of food.
Plant-based protective gel pouches promise to reduce plastic waste in the food chain.
Paper packaging is dramatically reduced as food ingredients are shipped in protein, veggie, and seasoning gel-encapsulated pouches.
In this new age of on-demand, printed meals, brands may shift towards shaping recipes instead of offering the final product.
Futureproof is a series of occasional provocations illustrating possible future paths for technology and culture. Think postcards from the future.