New Space Narrative: Responding to Multiple Futures with Design Perspective.

Design fiction is design-based storytelling, a narrative or story that is reflective and speculative on the part of the designer. The framework of rational thinking is further extended to envision the corresponding future under the worldview, thus reflecting on alternative futures and current society, and gradually realizing the concept with the help of technology. It is multi-stakeholder, aims to generate social attention and discussion, and is future-oriented. The new space narrative focuses on how people will live and work in space in the future. Through three iterations of the design space workshop and course, we adapted existing design thinking tools to guide students through the process of conceptualizing future scenarios in space, and reflected on and iterated on the use of the tools in the process. 4 groups of students were selected from “Nature Craving Disorder”, “Mars Media Personality”, “Earth Odor Missing”, and “Irrational Confrontation”. The four groups of students worked from the user profiles of four Mars residents, namely “Nature Craving”, “Mars Media Person”, “Earth Smell Nostalgia” and “Irrational Confrontation”, and used Roblox as the main creation platform to shape a new experience of Mars life. The students worked in groups of 4–5, and each group was evenly distributed taking into account their professional background, grade and gender, and completed 4 pieces of work as a group, namely “GreenBot” the green cutie on the Mars base, Mars fitness program: space fitness, “Apollo “Expedition”, and Mars Media Man. The use of the tools and the introduction of the students’ works will be expanded in detail in the text.