Week Four: A Day in the Life of a Typical Family in 2050

The tutorial activity asked us to create characters that exist within our imagined scenario. This gives an insight into how the future scenario has effected peoples' lifestyles and how they interact with that world. By approaching the scenario from the perspective of what the people would be doing within it made a lot of sense and allowed us to be a bit more creative with the characters!

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A 'TYPICAL' FAMILY IN 2050....


FELIX - 10 year old child

• Only child
• Likes to play Virtual Golf
• Walks and take the travellator to school nearby
• Plays with friends in the recreation park nearby

VELMA - 42 years old

• Stepmum of Felix
• Works from home
• Takes care of vegatable patch on small balcony outside
• Microwaves instant meat for dinner

REX - 40 years old

• Father of Felix
• Works in the urban farms in a supervisor position
• Is awarded Salary + Food benefits each week
• Works flexible hours
• Loves team sport - goes out into suburbs to play cricket.

BRENT - 81 years old

• Grandfather of Felix
• School teacher at Felix's school (Life skills)
• Coeliac

By combining some of our previous ideas with new, brainstormed ideas we were able to be creative and came up with the following lifestyle factors for our characters:

• Shift in dynamic from normal family
• Less practice of religion
• Increase in technological reliance
• vertical and urban farming
• 24/7 operating servicing
• Majority of the population eat out
• Social networking becomes standard communication
• Decrease in social and sexual taboo
• Large engineering and IT workforce
• Increase in Part-time and Job share positions
• Online services
• ID profiles held under facebook account
• Shift work to accommodate for a 24/7 economy
• Lower working hours in a week
• More emphasis on the importance of social interaction in society - our group thought it was important to address this fact. Therefore there will be more social interaction opportunities, such as cafes and parks Also it is essential for children to still develop social skills - therefore they still physically go to school to encourage these skills, rather than watching podcasts from home