Science Fiction and Innovation Design

Thomas Michaud holds a PhD in Management Science and an MBA. He is the author of Innovation, Between Science and Science Fiction (ISTE-Wiley, 2017) and studies the impact of the imagination on creativity and foresight.

• Introduction ixThomas MICHAUDChapter 1. Technological Innovations in the Post-Apocalyptic World: Lessons Learned from Science Fiction Movies 1Nadine BOUDOU1.1. Introduction 11.2. The future machine of humanity 21.3. A pending world? 41.4. Consuming the world 61.5. A finite world 81.6. Conclusion 111.7. References 12Chapter 2. Using Science Fiction in Engineering Education: Technological Imagination as an Element of Technical Culture 15Marianne CHOUTEAU and Céline NGUYEN2.1. Introduction 152.2. What is technical culture? 172.2.1. In the name of autonomy 172.2.2. For a non-segmented technical culture 192.3. Science fiction, technology and narrative: fertile connections 202.3.1. Science fiction, a sociotechnical genre 212.3.2. Science fiction: a special genre in the service of technical culture 222.4. Science fiction and the imaginary world at the heart of training 262.4.1. Exploring science fiction representations 272.4.2. Science fiction to build an ethical approach 292.4.3. Perspectives: harvesting and building on science fiction imaginary worlds in order to innovate 312.5. Conclusion 332.6. References 34Chapter 3. Engineers Versus Designers: Transposition of the Technical Imaginary World into the Visual 37Florin ALEXA-MORCOV3.1. Introduction 373.2. From applied science to applied art 383.3. The question of the “object” in contemporary society 413.4. The “transparency” of technology 453.5. “Transparent” objects 463.6. “Deconstructed” objects 463.7. “Printed” objects 463.8. “Skeleton” objects 473.9. “Impossible” objects 473.10. Conclusion 473.11. References 48Chapter 4. Imaginary Worlds to Be Projected or to Be Criticized? Methodological Considerations 51Nicolas MINVIELLE, Remy HEMEZ and Olivier WATHELET4.1. Introduction 514.2. Challenges in the production of a corpus of imagination 524.3. Imaginary worlds of various qualities 544.4. Representations that are often appropriable and exploratory 554.5. New vulnerabilities 574.6. Context, a first point of entry for appropriating the imaginary worlds 584.7. Uses, another point of entry for appropriating the imaginary worlds 604.8. Conclusion 644.9. References 67Chapter 5. Marsism, from Science Fiction to Ideology 69Thomas MICHAUD5.1. Introduction 695.2. The Mars Society’s martian imaginary world 715.3. Elon Musk, a utopian entrepreneurial spirit 745.4. The technotype of the extraterrestrial base 775.5. Marsism, nasaism, communism and technoscientific microideologies 805.6. Conclusion 835.7. References 84Chapter 6. Quo Vadis Engineering? Science Fiction as a Means to Expand the Epistemic Boundaries of Technoscientific Innovation 89Marie-Luc ARPIN, Corinne GENDRON, Nicolas MERVEILLE and Jean-Pierre REVÉRET6.1. Introduction 896.2. Science fiction at the heart of engineering innovation 906.3. Figures of inevitability: the engineer at the confluence of discourses 926.3.1. The disruption-less discourses of disruption 936.3.2. The “convergence” discourse 936.3.3. The engineer character at the confluence of discourses 956.4. Instrumentalizing the social 966.4.1. “The art of the long view”, or the theory of strategic foresight 986.4.2. The Engineer of 2020 or the “instrumentalization” of strategic forecasting theory 996.5. Science fiction as emancipation from the “problem-form” 1046.6. Conclusion 1096.7. References 110Chapter 7. Design Fiction, Technotypes and Innovation 113Thomas MICHAUD7.1. Introduction 1137.2. Altshuller, from science fiction to the TRIZ method 1167.3. John Arnold’s approach 1217.4. The emergence of design fiction 1247.5. From the plausibility of design fiction to possible disappointment 1287.6. The theory of the failure of the imaginary world 1297.7. Science fiction prototyping and design fiction 1317.8. The pioneer, Julian Bleecker 1327.9. Dreaming, a simulator of the dangers to come 1347.10. Some approaches to design fiction 1357.11. Science fiction, design fiction and foresight 1377.12. Toward a new mythology because of storytelling 1397.13. From utopian technologies to the technotype theory 1417.14. Four proposals on technotypes 1467.15. Beliefs and behavioral economics 1477.16. Realistic, imaginary systems and their cyclicity 1487.17. Conclusion 1497.18. References 152Chapter. 8 Science Fiction, Innovation and Organization: Where Do We Stand? 163Sonia ADAM-LEDUNOIS, Claire AUPLAT and Sébastien DAMART8.1. Introduction 1638.2. Science fiction in its diversity 1648.3. A focused review of academic literature on science fiction: method 1688.4. Systematic literature review: findings 1728.5. How science fiction sees technology and organizations 1748.6. Dystopian visions of technologies and organizations 1758.7. Highlighting ideologies behind technology and organizations 1778.8. Science fiction as the source of new technological and organizational scenarios 1808.9. Conclusion: three demonstrations and a possible research avenue 1818.10. References 181List of Authors 193Index 195