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EPISODE N°076 - FOOD (IN)SECURITY DESIGN FICTION FUTURES

This is a great example of Design Fiction in the wild.A discussion with Jan Rod
and Kenta Kondo from IDEO Tokyo sharing their Project Inari in which created a
sushi box as Design Fiction artifact.
Oct 12, 2023 1 min read


DESIGN FICTION DEBRIEF

Join me for a deep excavation into the creation of a product catalog from the
future as a Design Fiction archetype. This debrief will be based on a real-world
example of a Design Fiction project, the canonical TBD Catalog (10th Anniversary
Edition)! Learn how we translated insights, foresight, research, instinct
Sep 27, 2023 2 min read


OFFICE HOURS N°180 - GENERATIVE AI AND SOUND ART

This discussion explored emerging technologies like generative AI and sound art
installations that push the boundaries of human experience. The group speculated
on how these technologies could shape the future, from AI that generates
hyper-realistic images to sound installations that transport listeners to
different times and places. For those interested
Sep 24, 2023 1 min read


IMAGINATION + INNOVATION

A few months back, Johannes Klingebiel and I were on a call talking about
"innovation" — and I wondered aloud what that word meant, and what it could
possibly mean. It was this feeling of retrieving the sensibility and reinvesting
it with some values that came from some possible future, or
Aug 19, 2023 2 min read


SUPER SEMINAR WAS SUPER GREAT

Yesterday was the inaugural sessions of our new platform Super Seminar and it
went great — way better than I thought for something with opportunities for
plugs to get unplugged, internets to turn off, and connections made to 7 time
zones. Super Seminar 001 was our Imagination Futures session where we
Aug 17, 2023 3 min read


RADAR

0:00/1× Some of you who have been watching the vanguard experiments in
collaboration — I'm alluding to the mechanics of algorithmically relational
collectives which is my tongue-twisting way of saying blockchain-backed DAOs, or
Distributed Autonomous Organizations — will have heard of RADAR. What is this
evocative-sounding RADAR? RADAR is a
Aug 10, 2023 1 min read


SUPER SEMINAR

We’ve got a new platform called Super Seminar! This is the platform those of you
who have been asking for a deeper dive into the futures-oriented approach to
innovation, and asked me to put together programs so you can see how it's done
— how seasoned practitioners sense-make with a
Aug 8, 2023 2 min read


EPISODE 074 - SASHA POHFLEPP

This episode is a special one. I managed to extract the audio tape from the SxSW
2010 panel on Design Fiction I organized together with Stuart Candy, Jake
Dunagen, Jennifer Leonard, Bruce Sterling — and Sascha Pohflepp. So this episode
is a bit like a time capsule of a moment when
Aug 6, 2023 46 min read


EPISODE 073 - THE EMERGING CREATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS

This episode is a super fun conversation I got to have with Lila Feldman, who
recently completed the MFA course in Design + Technology at Parsons School of
Design, studying with Tony Dunne and Fiona Raby in their Designed Realities
Studio. Pssst — Free Shipping to the USA of all the things
Jul 26, 2023 1 min read


EPISODE 072 - CHE-WEI WANG

The independent creative practice is a beautiful idea full of exquisite,
life-changing and life-affirming lessons. Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy are the
creative consciousness that is CW&T. I talked to Che-Wei about what it feels
like to have been experiencing those lessons and what has been learned over the
Jul 19, 2023 1 min read


NEW BOOK DROP, BECAUSE IMAGINING THE END OF THE WORLD IS TOO EASY.

1. As you may see, I wrote a new book called 'It's Time To Imagine Harder',
available now over at The Shop. 2. We're managing to maintain ourselves as an
independent publisher. That happens only because of your support. Feels like
what I imagine it would be to run an
Jul 17, 2023 3 min read


OFFICE HOURS ARE...

For 169 weeks straight I've been hosting Office Hours. What started as a desire
to just talk to people during the pandemic has become a ritual. There are
regulars who join, and then folks who are curious to learn more about what's
going on in the NFL Discord. It's a
Jul 10, 2023 1 min read


EPISODE 071 - GHOST INFLUENCERS & ZERO GRAVITY DEFENSIVE GRAPPLING

Episode 071 of the Near Future Laboratory Podcast is up! This is a conversation
with my friend, the writer and noted architecture critic ⁠Geoff Manaugh⁠, who
has written for the The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, The New
Yorker, The Guardian, The Financial Times Magazine, New Scientist, Cabinet
Jul 8, 2023 1 min read


ARTIFACTS FROM DESIGN FICTION FUTURES

A few months back, Fernando Gutiérrez Olaizola sat me down to talk about what it
is to imagine possible futures through the Design Fiction approach. He captured
our conversation beautifully in an article in Compass Magazine's April 2023
issue, which you can find here over at https://www.apf.org/
Jun 29, 2023


THE MANUAL OF DESIGN FICTION: SECOND PRINTING

Hello World. No errors. No warnings. We're good to go! The Near Future
Laboratory is back and freshly recompiled, refactored, and with a fresh brand
new API. This summer is going to be FUN! First things first. The thing many of
you have been emailing about - it's the Second
Jun 28, 2023 4 min read
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