Near Future Laboratory

Found in an interview of Hugh Raffles about his recent work. He starts off with its anxiety towards theoretical branding and moves to his own ethnographic practice:“I'm always wary of branding ...

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Some notes on what we did last month. We are concerns for the many perspectives that present a misconstrued perspective on Design Fiction. We felt the need to add a few notes to rectify some of t...

https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2019/11/01/the-month-ending-10-2019/

“The contents of your shopping basket may change. Almost 30% of our food currently comes from the EU, and it is likely that some foods, such as fresh vegetables and fruit, will become more scar...

https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2019/10/31/a-design-fiction-on-brexit/

We are super excited and thrilled that the term “Design Fiction” is being heard beyond the relatively small community of designers who have been practicing it over the last decade or so. More...

https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2019/10/23/on-design-fiction-close-but-no-cigar/

When discussing and writing about the future of cities with autonomous vehicles, it is easy to skip over complex details in favor of the “big headlines”. Any decision-maker serious about eval...

https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2019/10/21/a-map-of-geneva-for-autonomous-vehicles/

An art project I ran across at the Lyon Art Biennale back in 2011. The Post-Digital seminar at ENS in Paris organized this rather inter... The post Anthropocene and Digital Imaginaries appe...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NicolasNova/~3/ys_IJ_VxaKo/anthropocene-and-digital-imaginaries

Seen in Italy last week-end, the eco-trend is here. That being said, I’m fascinated by the 100% bamboo thing, made me think of all those artists and designers interested in creatin... The pos...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NicolasNova/~3/NIgNYHx8DRA/organic-informatics

The business of dishonest automation and how the engineers, data scientists and designers behind it can fix it “The pilots fought continuously until the end of the flight“, said Capt. Nurcahy...

https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2019/01/16/when-automation-bites-back/

Do these selfies taken by two people who don’t know each other give us a glimpse of the future? Will the ever-increasing use of technological devices reconfigure our bodies? Will it affect our...

https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2018/12/27/end-of-the-year-swimsuit-spectacular-booklet/

This week we have taken over The Design Museum of London’s Instagram feed. We did this in coordination with the publication of our Ikea Catalog (of the Near Future) for The Design Museum’s c...

https://blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2018/12/11/design-fiction-at-the-design-museum/