Glasgow Innovation School Product Design

Taylor Moffat-Kyle (Mr)

I am a speculative futures designer with a soft spot and strong passion for design research. A large sum of my projects at GSA tackle ‘What If?’ scenerios where people and place come together, often gravitating towards future living and neighbourhood design as this affords me the ability to explore not only the large scale changes to the worlds landscape and how it will continue to evolve in the coming years, but also the granular human touch points of day to day living in future. The drive and main focus of my work is to develop creatively engaging systems, artefacts and touch points to entice specualtion and debate about what the future holds for us, so that collectively we can move towards a world that we can be proud of. Throughout my studies at GSA I also realised the importance of design ethnography and just how prevelant these skills lend themselves to this kind of design, by helping to remove personal bias you can develop something much more meaningflu and inspired if you take the time to watch, listen and observe the world as it exists around you.

Contact
studioteacake@gmail.com
t.kyle1@student.gsa.ac.uk
@studioteacake
Projects
A Journey – Becoming A Citizen Representative
Omphalos – Repurposing The High Street

Collaborative Works
Cancer Education in 2030
Cancer Education in 2030

A Journey – Becoming A Citizen Representative

The Future Experiences project had us working within the realm of cancer care in the near future (2030), we were to explore the changes to educating medical professionals in this time in relation to Collective Intelligence and the new opportunities this would provide. As a group we developed a world built upon global connectivity and community driven care, in return, I myself went on to develop a new role and system that would allow for the gap between community and global reach to be fulfilled – The Citizen Representative. This role would act as one of our many ‘citizen aid’ roles that we developed, a role that would not only need unique medical training but also exemplify skills in community out reach and leadership. The developed system would afford the opportunity for the role to understand what training and skills are requiered for them to have to provide the best care possible to their communities unique needs and help to develop trust.

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https://pd.gsainnovationschool.co.uk/fe21/education/

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The group developed world introduced a large varierty of potential new roles and jobs that may exist in the future of healthcare, exploring how these roles interact with each other was my primary focus for the individual section of this project

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A system was developed so that these new roles could view this same information themselves, offering them the ability to make more effective changes to their care and training within their community.

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An ironed out version of the future time line was developed in order to better portray the change in the future landscape, but also to mark out the moments and events that may take place for one particular person on their journey to becoming a citizen representative.

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This new role and system should all be public knowledge, helping to progress the idea of community care and making sure that everyone feels welcomed and cared for.

Omphalos – Repurposing The High Street

Omphalos was created as part of my honours project this year, it is a public sector organisation that would opperate as part of the Scottish government in an attempt to revive and repurpose under developed high streets and town centers around the country. With the aid of local councils and the participation of communities, Omphalos would arrange live events that utilise technologies and systems found within smart cities in order to explore how they could benefit and alter the traditional high street that we know today. In addition to this, successful events will also have the opportunity to be funded via growd funding campaigns allowing the residents of the local area to decide whether or not this is something they would like to see in their own town.

For more information view the link bellow to be taken to the Omphalos website.

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Omphalos is a public sector organisation that organise and host live events within underdeveloped towns and areas to explore how systems of sybiosis found within smart cities, can be utilised to bring new purpose and experiences.

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'The Death of the High Street' is a concept I am sure most are familiar with at this point, however in the context of local towns and villages around Scotland, we are already witnessing this becoming reality. A problem that is resulting in large amounts of unused land and property.

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More and more highstreets around the country are facing this unfortunate inevitability, in the very near future we will have to look for ways to utilise these spaces more effectively

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A mock of the high street was constructed in order to explore the concept and create a visual for the exemplar event that was designed for the main outcome.

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The final event would explore the possibilty of turning large empty stores into multi-purpose spaces that are more affordable and offer brand new experiences to the high street.

Cancer Education in 2030

How does the world look like in 2030? How has cancer education evolved to adapt?

 

In 2030 with the rapid development of technology and the power of collective intelligence, cancer and its treatment has become manageable. Most procedures can be done at home and new roles called Citizen Supports emerged. Citizen Supports is a role, which every person in 2030 will be assigned as in their community. Citizen Supports have themselves experienced the cancer treatment or have closely witnessed the process. They will help the ongoing cancer patients by holding consultations. The way in which communities’ function has changed to allow for more effective way of living. This has been achieved in a multitude of ways, taking great focus on empathetic approaches and accessibility for all on many levels. Consideration were made from aspects such as how people can medicate at home or contribute to their society to further its potential while sharing the load.

 

Life in 2030.

Sharing how community and Citizen Supports are working collectively to support each other and their relationship with the Health Leader Board.

Cancer Education in 2030

How does the world look like in 2030? How has cancer education evolved to adapt?

 

In 2030 with the rapid development of technology and the power of collective intelligence, cancer and its treatment has become manageable. Most procedures can be done at home and new roles called Citizen Supports emerged. Citizen Supports is a role, which every person in 2030 will be assigned as in their community. Citizen Supports have themselves experienced the cancer treatment or have closely witnessed the process. They will help the ongoing cancer patients by holding consultations. The way in which communities’ function has changed to allow for more effective way of living. This has been achieved in a multitude of ways, taking great focus on empathetic approaches and accessibility for all on many levels. Consideration were made from aspects such as how people can medicate at home or contribute to their society to further its potential while sharing the load.

life in 2030

Sharing how community and Citizen Supports are working collectively to support each other and their relationship with the Health Leader Board.