Creating Collaborative Futures
Creating Collaborative Futures: Collective Decision-making for the Energy Transition – was run in collaboration with the Collective Intelligence team at NESTA, the UK’s innovation agency, and focused on exploring the future of sustainable energy.
The brief invited the five Masters of European Design students to explore and envision how people and technology could collaborate to enable informed decision-making in energy systems that benefit communities and the environment over the next decade. To achieve this, the students employed one of NESTA’s tools, HACID.
HACID stands for Human and Artificial Collective Intelligence for Decision-Making and is a hybrid technology that aggregates artificial intelligence and crowd-sourced expert input. HACID supports decision-making for complex, open-ended problems like those in the energy sector. Its goal is to provide multiple suggestions and insights to help navigate these challenges.
Over the course of the intensive collaborative project, the students envisioned a 2035 future world vision and developed individual works that come together to form an interconnected system for communities to approach complex decision-making related to the energy transition.
