Innovation Grid

What is the goal of innovation?
Thesis Exhibition, 2022

Innovation has led to some amazing things. We can cross the Atlantic in a matter of hours, calculate the trajectories of spaceships, and video-chat with people around the world. We can also drop nuclear bombs, fill the ocean with trash and degrade our social functions with endless scrolling.

This is obvious, but sometimes innovation is regarded as an end and not a means. What really matters is the motivating factor not the technological jump. How can our future innovation be motivated by real problems and not a distracted preoccupation with our gadgets?