back to the future III: the final project

Project links Pitch Beta YouTube lookbook TikTok Approaching the Future Cultures DA Challenge Future Cultures DA Focus: Consider the future in the next 5, 10, 25, or 50 years The Future Cultures challenge for this subject was to consider the future in the next 5 to 50 years, in a field of our choice. We’re …

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Live Tweeting Part 2: We Tweet Again

The final update to my live-tweeting journey is here (see Live Tweeting Part 1: Tweet of the Moment). You know the gist: weekly screenings, sci-fi movies, linking to our lectures and additional content, and a nice bonus of attracting the attention of an existing fandom.  Blade Runner 2049 (2017) This movie was one of my …

three heads are Beta than one

We’re back for a Part 2 of commenting and reflecting our Future Cultures Digital Artefact, this time for our Project Beta update. As I already mentioned in my Part 1 post with our Project Pitches, the sheer range of topics able to be analysed under the future thinking framework is possibly the best part of …

project beta: back to the fashion

https://youtu.be/ASqBXV7z8Go Initially for my digital artefact, I planned to incorporate my growing interest in filming and editing lifestyle vlogs to post weekly videos and explore the culture around journaling and surveillance with a future studies lens. While feedback was positive, I hadn't figured out how to integrate what we were learning in the subject into …

Live-Tweeting Part 1: Tweet of the Moment

We interrupt this semester to bring you the Part 1 update of my first live-tweeting experience, with classic sci-fi movies I feel like I should’ve already seen, brought to you by BCM325 Future Cultures. Engaging with popular media is possibly my favourite part of studying Communications and Media at UOW, as it feels like it …

Pitch comments and reflection

As part of my BCM325 Future Cultures unit, I posted three comments in response to my peers’ DA project pitches. Jordan’s project is to build a functional robot prototype using Blender, a 3D modelling program, and post weekly project status updates that apply future thinking to the concept of robots. My comment linked Jordan's project …

The future of vlogging

Did you ever write in a diary? Diaries provide a means of writing ourselves into the world and were considered an almost obligatory companion during the 19th century, coined 'the golden age of the diary'. It's linked to the quest for individuality or self, developing during the 20th century into a more modernist drive for …