Editor Letter | Issue 01 | October 2025
Modern Renaissance:
The Democratisation of New Generation Polymath to drive Innovations
Modern Renaissance:
The Democratisation of New Generation Polymath to drive Innovations
Understanding what it needs to take in regards to solve today’s problem, we as independent publisher explore transdisciplinary practice that helps solving complex issues and democratise it.
Writer Wigy Ramadhan
Welcome to our first issue of Future Reality Design journal. It is a dream for me to write and sharing interesting practice and knowledge I am fortunate enough to be exposed and experiencing.
I am personally also a designer who fascinated by the design process itself and the people who make life out of it. Beyond design, on its output, and impact, I tend to be interested with certain area of design that is clever, and not just aesthetic or functionally works. But more like a design that pushes the boundaries of discipline and offering new reality through it impact.
Design has been growing from a industrial focus practice, business strategy, and now has taken an important step up to influence and involved in scientific journey.
Through imagination, design has help invention that maybe not going to be explored or even pushed it to get out from the lab.
Design has it’s power to make things that never been thought become possible and feasible.
Speculative Design and Design Futures, have come to give new perspective and impact of how creativity combined with good understanding and involment of science and engineering can make a great output and outcome.
Innovation has become something that we are craving to hear every year. We celebrate inventor, or brands that come up with something new and fresh. More importantly that solve the societal and planetary problems.
Our intention here is not to cover the hype of big brands or to celebrate their successful on delivering new technologies. But, rather we want to give spotlight to emerging practice and practicioners, and make it accessible to everyone in the world.
I was born in Indonesia, a nation right in the middle of equator. As someone who grew up there it is unfortunate for us to get access to emerging knowledge and technology. People there always say we are 5 years left behind.
I am very fortunate to be able to move to the London, UK and exposed to the this all emerging technology, practicioners like scientist, engineers, and designers trying to invent and redefine the modern world.
But at the same time I felt the western world now trying to learn from indigenous culture and innovation which country like Indonesia, India, Colombia, Nepal, Mongolia and others have been doing and preserving it up until today’s modern world.
It was funny moment where I come to Europe to learn about modernisation, and many of the discussion in here more about the indigenous practice that I still see and experienced back in my home country. Though, unfortunately, we have our own issues with the modernisation start taking away the our culture and induced the western modernisation.
Not to talking about the issues on modernisation that brought by the globalisation, but rather, in this issues, I want to bring practicioners and their thingking and practice which responding in today’s complex and ever changing world, from different part the world to make a trully diverse knowledge sharing.
Modern Renaissance may sounds a bit too western centric, in fact it better suited word to called those people who are polymath and bring change and influence to a cultural movement. I can’t find better word as alternative. But by bringing people and practice from diverse background I hope by starting from this platform we could design a better Future Reality, which is neither utopia and dystopia.
Feel free to let me know what you think about our digital platform, the issue or anything else. You can reach me at wigy@futurereality.design
Wigy Ramadhan is the co-founder and director of Future Reality Design. He was inspired by his own experience onf his master study at Imperial College London and Royal College of Art where he exposed to many emerging tech and people who work behind it.
Through this platform he hopes to democratise knowledge and practice of transdiciplanirty, as he thinks it is important to solve today’s world complex issues.
I am personally also a designer who fascinated by the design process itself and the people who make life out of it. Beyond design, on its output, and impact, I tend to be interested with certain area of design that is clever, and not just aesthetic or functionally works. But more like a design that pushes the boundaries of discipline and offering new reality through it impact.
Design has been growing from a industrial focus practice, business strategy, and now has taken an important step up to influence and involved in scientific journey.
Through imagination, design has help invention that maybe not going to be explored or even pushed it to get out from the lab.
Design has it’s power to make things that never been thought become possible and feasible.
Speculative Design and Design Futures, have come to give new perspective and impact of how creativity combined with good understanding and involment of science and engineering can make a great output and outcome.
Innovation has become something that we are craving to hear every year. We celebrate inventor, or brands that come up with something new and fresh. More importantly that solve the societal and planetary problems.
Our intention here is not to cover the hype of big brands or to celebrate their successful on delivering new technologies. But, rather we want to give spotlight to emerging practice and practicioners, and make it accessible to everyone in the world.
I was born in Indonesia, a nation right in the middle of equator. As someone who grew up there it is unfortunate for us to get access to emerging knowledge and technology. People there always say we are 5 years left behind.
I am very fortunate to be able to move to the London, UK and exposed to the this all emerging technology, practicioners like scientist, engineers, and designers trying to invent and redefine the modern world.
But at the same time I felt the western world now trying to learn from indigenous culture and innovation which country like Indonesia, India, Colombia, Nepal, Mongolia and others have been doing and preserving it up until today’s modern world.
It was funny moment where I come to Europe to learn about modernisation, and many of the discussion in here more about the indigenous practice that I still see and experienced back in my home country. Though, unfortunately, we have our own issues with the modernisation start taking away the our culture and induced the western modernisation.
Not to talking about the issues on modernisation that brought by the globalisation, but rather, in this issues, I want to bring practicioners and their thingking and practice which responding in today’s complex and ever changing world, from different part the world to make a trully diverse knowledge sharing.
Modern Renaissance may sounds a bit too western centric, in fact it better suited word to called those people who are polymath and bring change and influence to a cultural movement. I can’t find better word as alternative. But by bringing people and practice from diverse background I hope by starting from this platform we could design a better Future Reality, which is neither utopia and dystopia.
Feel free to let me know what you think about our digital platform, the issue or anything else. You can reach me at wigy@futurereality.design
Wigy Ramadhan is the co-founder and director of Future Reality Design. He was inspired by his own experience onf his master study at Imperial College London and Royal College of Art where he exposed to many emerging tech and people who work behind it.
Through this platform he hopes to democratise knowledge and practice of transdiciplanirty, as he thinks it is important to solve today’s world complex issues.