The future of money as a design material

For many years the primary representation of value has been money. However complex we perceive its material, social and symbolic characteristics, money is now undergoing significant change as it becomes data. This paper explores implications for design a series technological regulatory shifts are taking place that changing into The anticipates won’t be long before personal bank accounts will better understood to data stores, monies held within them connected data-driven systems ‘pay’ services require. By charting changes place, introducing case studies make tangible opportunities, suggests an emerging space in which designers should anticipate new forms entirely material.