Playtime: Designing Alternate Perceptions Of Timescales

Abstract

This thesis first explores issues in ecological health and asks how design can help to engage and protect resources in the hopes of cultural change instead of Eco-capitalism. This topic is vastly complex and requires the work of communities to alter systematic issues rather than an individual design piece. In light of this the thesis goes on to explore how our inability to envision with time-scales outside our own average lifespan prevents us from making conscious designs for a future planet we may not be apart of, one that most likely will be suffering from the ecological harm being done today. This thesis concluding in designing an artifact to be used in qualifying time and placing ourselves in multiple presents.