BLACKSBURG, Va., July 16 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
What will everyday life look like 10 years from now? How might emerging technologies, environmental changes, or social trends reshape the way people live, work, and interact? And what new challenges will those changes create?
Those are the questions industrial design students in the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design explored through a speculative design project completed during the spring semester. Unlike traditional product design, which focuses on solving existing problems, speculative design asks students to look ahead by using research to imagine plausible futures and identify problems that do not yet exist.
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