Envisioning Now: Detailing Parallel Worlds and Persuading for their Production

Industry changed the human condition by affording large scale rapid production of almost anything. This ability to produce in large volume, scale, and complexity demanded a constant resource of engineers, architects, and designers to ensure new productions evolve to meet consumer demands. This studio will explore techniques used by product designers for envisioning new ways of living. We will review landmark visions, design processes, and manufacturing techniques that will guide our research projects. We will sketch, 3D model, and diagram new lifestyles and detail a keystone invention within the lifestyle to seed its ideology now.

S. Adrian Massey III

MDesS, Harvard, INVIVIA

Adrian is Creative Director at INVIVIA Inc. INVIVIA is a design research consultancy in Cambridge Massachusetts. Adrian is also an editor of the progressive lifestyle magazine, DIS Magazine. Previously Adrian taught creative studies to youth at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Shady Lane, and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh PA. He holds Industrial Design degrees from Harvard Graduate School of Design and Rhode Island School of Design. Many of his interests are informed by his ongoing research in holarchic differentiation and object relations theory.

image source: still from a Ryan Trecartin film