What is the future sense of Living?
I know this seems an odd semantic question but it’s a weird hole in talking about human-centred design.
Lived
I get Lived Experience – the durée of having lived in places/communities/body since birth.
That’s the Past.
Living
I get Living Experience – the perception of this time and place physically/emotionally. The qualitative, not quantitative, data of being here and now.
That’s the Present
To be Lived?
But what’s the future term?
What is the next of life?
Is it about anticipation or prediction or imagination? The autonoetic sense of human perception that leans into the possible futures to sense out what seems likely and desirable?
Human-centred language
Lived/Living phrasing came from a need to rebalance research from its bias to professional or academic perspectives and methods. The need to recognise and respect the knowledge of people who do not have the deep vocabulary of jargon and coded phrases that institutions deal in and believe hold Objective Truth.
Yet what people hope to do with their lives, those lives to be lived, remain unfocused.
The path into the future is held by work and retirement, by health and financial needs.
We still let professional and institution-centred language hold the individual futures. The choices are rational and objective. The future lives are held by making good choices about living properly today – doing the work to earn the money to save and eating sensibly to be in good health later.
The ‘To Be Lived’ is not there in human centred design terms.