Monthly Archives: February 2011

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Science Fiction Prototyping for Technology Innovation

Science-fact and science-fiction all in a productive, creative, inspirational muddle. Jurassic Park meets its science meets its facts and its fictions in a favorite Time magazine cover, April 23, 1994. This is really exciting to me. It feels like there … Continue reading

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Design Culture Lab: Ethnographic Fiction & Speculative Design Workshop

A Call for Papers for an intriguing sounding workshop expanding upon and evolving the Design Fiction ideas. This full-day workshop aims to explore how grounded ethnographic and action research methods can be transformed into fictional and speculative designs that provide … Continue reading

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Lab Coats In Hollywood

At long last David A. Kirby’s book Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists, and Cinema will hopefully actually finally be released this March 2011. For those of you who haven’t followed the Design Fiction citational and bibliographic rabbit hole, you’ll … Continue reading

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Art Center Summer Residency: Learning and the New Ecology of Things

Seems Art Center’s Media Design Program has extended its deadline for applicants for a summer residency — learning and pervasive/ubiquitous/thing-y computing. http://www.artcenter.edu/mdp/research/summer2011/ === Learning and the New Ecology of Things We are particularly interested in projects that explore learning in … Continue reading