A driving force, such as “without proper education, access to reproductive healthcare goes underutilized,” is a sort of trend that will drive the future one way or another. To find our driving forces we put together a database and looked for major trends within our findings and things that will affect the future of reproductive healthcare for young adults.
We then built a 2x2 Matrix based off of our driving forces, one access being more or less restrictive reproductive health laws and the other being formal or informal sexual health education literacy. The matrix maps out the extremes on the ends of the spectrum and that is how we got our 4 scenarios
Once our matrix was done we used each of the quadrant’s given scenarios we started to build a narrative around each scenario that is driven all of our driving forces. We created a total of 4 scenarios. Once our scenarios were done we made artifacts that would belong in these futures.
Mary Sue finds Hexagonian healthcare house (Scenario 1)
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Candice and the highly helpful health class (Scenario 2)
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Joe and Karen's sexless relationship (Scenario 3)
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Amanda's hyperloop adventure (Scenario 4)
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Nikki Oelbaum
Krista Gibson
Ian Oliver
Vlad Reznikov
This project was created for our IAD 4490 course: Design Futures. The purpose of this project was to do research and using certain methods build scenarios and artifacts for the future. The topic our group chose was the future of reproductive healthcare for young adults, an idea we got from recent law changes. From our research we discovered driving forces which gave us a base to create scenarios of different futures, and then we turned our scenarios into narratives with artifacts from those futures.
