Take a look at the slides from this awesome workshop for everything David shared: https://youtu.be/miRkF08AXDM. Or you can read the summary below. Be sure to post your writing in the comment section!
Imagining the Future of the Familiar
Scene from Upload (2020)
Note how many everyday objects are re-imagined in this scene.
This includes biological, technological, and spiritual
“Little Thing” (Short Film) (2018)
Note the effect of an inhuman character viewing the familiar human world through their lens.
Exercise 1: Re-imagining the Familiar
List a series of common, everyday objects, places, or events.
For those who were part of this workshop in May, you may wish to try the events or places prompt
e.g., What does a wedding of the future look like? (Event)
e.g., What does a classroom of the future look like? (Place)
Now let’s imagine how they will be different in 50 years (there are no wrong answers).
Pick two or three from your list and speculate on how they will be different
Will they be made of different materials? Will how we use them change? Will they be as common? Obsolete? Will they have a different use?
Exercise 2:
In all writing, your reader is being dropped into your world.
Some of you will have done “the Fish out of Water” exercise where a character finding their bearings in a new world is exactly what your reader experiences.
In your world of the future, what are the three things your “fish out of water” notices first?