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Project overview
A strategic intervention within the European Space Agency’s “The Science Now: Direction Earth” initiative that embedded ecological awareness directly into technological innovation processes.
The project combined a public panel discussion with hands-on foresight workshops, creating a hybrid space where creative participants were encouraged to hold environmental responsibility and technological imagination as equally critical forces in shaping future-oriented solutions.
Main objectives
I designed this intervention to reposition ecology from a secondary consideration to a foundational component of innovation thinking.
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The project aimed to:
☀︎ Illuminate the often-invisible environmental consequences of digital and space technologies
☀︎ Demonstrate how individual and collective user behaviors amplify or mitigate technological impact
☀︎ Equip participants with foresight methodologies that integrate ecological thinking directly into ideation and design processes
☀︎ Shift environmental responsibility from moral obligation to creative design opportunity
By introducing structured questioning techniques, participants were guided to anticipate not only what technology can do, but what it will cost ecosystems over time.
Achieved results
The intervention successfully expanded participants’ innovation frameworks beyond performance and feasibility to include ecological timelines and systemic impact.
The keynote raised awareness of the hidden materiality of digital and space infrastructures, while the foresight workshop provided concrete tools for evaluating the long-term environmental consequences of proposed solutions.
Participants adopted new patterns of inquiry that balanced technological ambition with environmental accountability, demonstrating increased sensitivity toward lifecycle thinking, resource extraction, and unintended consequences.
Main reflection
This project revealed that responsible technological development must begin at the moment of conception, not as a corrective layer added post-production.
By introducing foresight practices grounded in ecological impact, participants began to see environmental considerations not as limitations but as catalysts for more intelligent and nuanced innovation.
The strong engagement with these tools suggested that the absence of responsibility in innovation often stems not from indifference, but from the lack of accessible frameworks for anticipating long-term consequences.
Meaningful technological responsibility emerges when creators are provided with the right questions at the right time, transforming invisible ecological costs into visible design parameters and enabling futures that are not only technologically advanced, but ethically and ecologically conscious.