SPIsneyworld

The Social Progress Index (SPI) is an initiative to better understand the quality of life in different regions and support the decisions to improve it.SPIsneyworld is a project to investigate what the imaginative power of design can do for city development, on the basis of the SPI.

The sustainable transformation of a growing Umeå is complex, uncertain and sometimes scary. How can design help to embrace the complexity, generate excitement and create optimism? A first experiment used AI imagery to generate speculative futures for Umeå to foster a participatory conversation.