The Little Twin

‘A children’s books of the future’

This is a research in the everyday life design field on using children’s books of the future as a method for creating awareness about possible futures, understanding what is starting to happen now and will accelerate in the future. Building on theories about parent-child relationships, the research uses the emotional connection with a future child, to increase the urge and care for the future. This concept resulted in a children’s book called The Little Twin, touching up on the complexity of the metaverse and digital twins.

The book was presented during an exhibition, where the visitors received a package from their future child including a letter and the book. Afterwards, the impact was measured using two matrices on the understandability, relatability, emotional connection and care. It can be concluded that children’s books of the future allow to consciously reflect and think about growing into the future full of technological developments in our daily activities.

‘Holding the book in my hands made it real, that my son would have children and it might even be twins. I realised I would be a grandparent, which made me emotional.’