Our ideas of prosperity shape what we see as valuable and thereby shape our world. However, prosperity in the west comes with high levels of consumption and waste. It feels like there is another way if only we could imagine things differently. Design itself is part of the problem as its focus is on the new. So what if we were to design for less? Dramatic reductions are after all the fastest way to mitigate our ecological impact - lower emissions, lower waste.

This workshop experiments with the idea of designing for less stuff - in a way that creates a desirable future that feels prosperous, just in a different way. By using a grounded form of speculative design we'll define new scenarios with stories that help us shape or prepare for better ways of living in the anthropocene.

To this end, we want to collect images, objects, sounds, ideas... that signal such a prosperous future with less material wealth - Boisbuchet's rural context certainly provides different material than we are used to. Afterwards we’ll explore either desirable or thought-provoking futures in drawings, stories, and installations that come together in a final presentation. Let's dive deep into these worlds and develop narratives about the lives of people who meet their needs with less.