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.
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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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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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.
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.
