Standard Deviation
2018
Risk Scenarios for Urban Futures
With Huey Chan, Kostantina Eleni and Vsevolod Okin
Standard Deviation was a speculative design agency initiated during The New Normal post-graduate research programme at The Strelka Institute for Media Architecture and Design, Moscow.
Our lives are now shaped by new modes of sensing, interaction and exchange. Every new feat of progress also introduces previously unknown risks. As individuals, companies and cities champion perpetual innovation, are we overlooking the inherent uncertainties generated by each leap forward?
Standard Deviation helps clients contend with the uncertainties of a hyperconnected future by rethinking risk management from the ground-up. The agency deploys scenario planning developed through custom-built simulations and sensible intuitive judgements to define and measure future risks. In these scenarios, legacy conceptions of liability can no longer account for emerging complexities. Based on this position, the agency conceives and designs new safeguards and indemnity mechanisms within smart infrastructures.
Selected For The Future Architecture Platform 2019
