The Design Fiction project ‘Geneva Map for an Autonomous Vehicle Future’ is a canonical example of how Design Fiction can be used to create a tangible future that can be discussed and debated. A kind of 'applied imagination' that is a way to make the future more real and to help people understand the implications of new technologies.
The approach of Design Fiction involves producing a prospective scenario and materializing it as an everyday object, comprehensible and accessible to everyone, to spark situated discussions on societal issues such as technological change.
The objective of this mandate will be to create a plausible map of the City of Geneva designed for autonomous vehicles, which will facilitate discussion on the urban implications of such a deployment.