Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future from the Stanford D.School

A powerful, fully illustrated guide to using the tools of design thinking to create a more positive and cooperative future, from Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.

We live in an era of runaway design, where innovations tangle with our lives in unpredictable ways, from the positive and negative consequences of AI and social media to how development has driven climate change. Despite good intentions, the impacts of our actions can be tricky to notice, predict, and repair.

Featuring stunning art, Assembling Tomorrow explains how we can anticipate the implications of what we make before we release those ideas into the world--and how to use the tools of design to both mend the mistakes of our past and shape our future for the better.

This forward-looking guide helps you reframe your mindset to notice and question what you might otherwise have missed. Assembling Tomorrow imagines the future as if it had already happened and considers the past with a critical eye so that each one of us--as designers of our personal and shared futures--can work toward healing and create a better world for generations to come.

Author: Scott Doorley, Carissa Carter, Stanford D School
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 06/18/2024
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781984858184

About the Author
Scott Doorley is a writer, designer, and creative director at the Stanford d.school. He co-wrote the book Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration and teaches classed in design and communication. His work has been featured in museums from San Jose to Helsinki and in publications from Architecture + Urbanism to the New York Times.

Carissa Carter is a designer, geoscientist, and the academic director at the Stanford d.school. She's the author of The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data, and teaches design courses on emerging technologies, climate change, and data visualization. Her work on designing with machine learning and blockchain has earned multiple design awards, including Fast Company Innovation and Core 77 awards.

The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, known as the d.school, was founded at Stanford University in 2005. Each year, more than a thousand students from all disciplines attend classes, workshops, and programs to learn how the thinking behind design can enrich their own work and unlock their creative potential.

Armando Veve is an award-winning illustrator whose drawings have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, National Geographic, Scientific American, MIT Technology Review, and Wired, among others. He studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and currently resides in Philadelphia.