de'signs fiction For one week, myself and 17 students became the design/set/prop/costume department for an imaginary science fiction movie. During the week we did what seemed impossible at the outset and made up a future, converted a barn into a late 21st century factory-cum-pharmaceutical markedplace, we made props, including facemasks, medicine, guns (off course there were guns) and so on, we made costumes, we made a language (called Nordic). My brief called for something believable, yet foreign, the whole thing evolved into dealing with medicine and this development did the project good. The purpose of this seemingly shallow workshop was to make the students work fast and decisive sticking to a tight brief and a tighter deadline without ceasing to be creative. The final product wasn't the set. (Which we demolished two days after it was built.) The final product was a series of stills pretending to be our movie, some of them are here, the rest can be seen on my flickr. In a strange way this project also worked as research, the students are now able to go back to this project and look at the various solutions and take something from it. Packaging seems obvious, but also some fashion and architecture.