Design a Future Financial Crime.
2019 saw the return of the popular 2013 brief:
Crime whether we like it or not, is a driving force behind a large proportion of technological ‘progress’; this is especially true regarding money. In 1817, a burglary at a British dockyard led the government to start a competition, challenging locksmiths to invent an unpickable lock. The result was the Chubb detector lock, and it remained ‘unpicked’ for 33 years…
We invite creative practitioners to employ a speculative design approach and design a future monetary based crime. A crime which utilises a loophole, a social convention or specific technology.