While I was still in school at Art Center I had a great time working on a project with the grad industrial design department. It was both entertaining and socially responsible, which was rewarding.
The idea for the project was that each designer was given a deck of playing cards that would ultimately drive design. This helped to create back story. Chosen at random, each card described a small segment of the infrastructure of a future world like key political changes, population changes and disease epidemics. The eerie thing was that all the cards were relevant to what could potentially happen in the future should society make certain key and pivotal decisions.
If you would like to learn more about it, and I highly recommend checking it out with some of the other cool artwork on the site, it can be found at: