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Fabien Girardin in Design Fictions

Our Approach of Design Fiction

One of our objectives at Near Future Laboratory is to help carry Design Fiction to maturity and any…

Julian Bleecker in Design Fictions

An Ikea Catalog From The Near Future

In September, the Near Future Laboratory conducted a workshop with the Mobile Life Center and…

Fabien Girardin in Design Fictions

The Design of Future Visions for Large Organizations

Clarify the present with Design Fiction: A tool…

Fabien Girardin in Design Fictions

An Archeology for the Future in Space

A detailed account of the role of “future archeologists” at the…

Fabien Girardin in Design Fictions

The Life and Death of Data Products

This is an approximate transcript of a Pecha-Kucha style talk I gave at a DataBeers Madrid event in the Google Madrid Campus on June 27, 2016. A Pecha-Kucha presentation recommends 20 slides for 20 seconds each, forcing a concise, fast paced, and entertaining 7…

Fabien Girardin in Design Fictions

The Global Village and its Discomforts

Or why designers and data scientists should learn from the anxieties, obsessions, phobias, stress and other mental burdens of the connected humans.

Julian Bleecker in Design Fictions

Why Did I Write An ‘Annual Report’ From The Future?

Fabien Girardin in Design Fictions

The Making of Things for Decision Making

This is an approximate transcript of a talk I gave at Sonar+D in the session “So, What…

Fabien Girardin in Design Fictions

Creating Fictional Data Services and Their Implications

Julian Bleecker in Design Fictions

Why Silicon Valley Hates TBD Catalog

Or: Please leave my burrito alone Chef Brin

These were the top 10 stories published by Design Fictions; you can also dive into yearly archives: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024.

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Julian Bleecker

Fabien Girardin

Nick Foster RDI

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Julian Bleecker