Steve Portigal, Muscles vs Methods: Skillbuilding for designers and innovators

Steve Portigal came by and dropped us a few tips in his lecture about building good designerly skills to survive out there. Listed is his top seven.

Are you a robot?

We are going through student presentations for concepts for the future in 2030. Of course there is an ironman-eque human-robot transformer concept thrown in there. But if this was for real, that someone could wear a thin supersuit that acts like a second skin but enhances your capabilities and turns you into a robot, how would you be able to tell the difference between a human and a human-being-a-robot?

Blarraghh-raah

Winter is cominggggg

Future food

When we run out of room for agriculture, energy for food production, biodiversity for nature's equilibrium, who says we won't be eating insects for reals by 2030?

Design activism agendas

Advancement

indeed.

Guffaw

And here you thought school was going to be all fun and games!

Octopus

I can't remember the context of this octopus, but I suppose everyone needs saving.

Window of opportunity

Who doesn't love an extension, or a general hand-it-in-around-whenever time?

future food

Save the food crisis.