Overview

CORE is an interactive speculative education system that predicts and assigns a student’s future pathway through biometric, behavioral, and institutional data.

Created as my senior capstone, the project critiques a future where education shifts from helping students discover who they are to optimizing who they should become.

Context

CORE imagines a future where uncertainty is treated as a design problem.

Instead of switching majors, studying subjects that feel disconnected, or moving from job to job without a clear direction, CORE assigns each student an optimized pathway based on biometric data, astrological data, ancestral records, behavioral modeling, and institutional prediction.

The system promises clarity and efficiency, but raises a larger question: what do we lose when our futures are decided for us?

Challenge

The challenge was to design a speculative system that felt useful, believable, and polished enough to be tempting.

CORE needed to feel like something people might actually accept: a pathway system that removes uncertainty, provides direction, and turns identity into data.