Episode 8: Flowing Environments

Fireside Chats with Empathic Futures Lab

This is the second episode in a series where we discuss some of the key trends in Kevin Kelly's book: The Inevitable. The trend for this episode is "Flowing." The idea is that as society progresses, we go from consumer rare, fixed items produced by specialially trained craftsmen to consuming ubiquitous copies of that media and finally to being able to modify and create such media on our own quite easily.

Our discussion focused around the following questions:

Where are we at in architecture/environment design today?

How far into this state of flowing do we as designers want to proceed? And what does that mean for design?

How do we reach a state of "flowing" for spaces and environments which are currently though of as fairly static?