General Seminar Season 06 is the sixth in a series of seminars that explore the intersection of design, technology, and culture. Each seminar features a different topic that lives at the vanguard of technological and social change. We look into territories that are not yet fully formed, understood, and which are begging for new epistemologies and ontologies — new ways of thinking, new forms of understanding, and new ways of being in the world. The seminars are open to the public and are designed to foster discussion and collaboration among participants. The...

An expert panel discussion on the evolving relationship between human agency and technology, exploring the implications of AI systems on society and the role of ethics, imagination, and policy in shaping viable futures. Held at The British Academy, London in collaboration with Google DeepMind, the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and the AI Policy and Governance Working Group.
Moderated by Prof. Alonda Nelson, this expert panel will wander into the questions, hopes, fears, dreads, dreams, and desires of our...

Detroit Imagines Harder was my 2024 edition of the ‘Imagine Harder’ series of workshops in which attendees collaborate to workshop around a hot topic using Design Fiction, and begin to construct an artifact that represents the implications of change endemic to that topic.

Gary, his generative documentary ‘Eno’, and Brian (Eno) are a kind of futurist of the best sort — they make the worlds they imagine and do so materially — and shape culture far more than the futurists who think getting a certificate in Foresight is good enough to call yourself one.

A series of discussions and presentations on the topic of Design Fiction, held at IDEO San Francisco on October 24th, 2013.

TBD Catalog stands as the first and quintessential example of a Design Fiction project. It effectively navigated a full Design Fiction process, involving a diverse group of participants from multiple fields in a futures workshop. Together, they explored emerging trends, examined their implications, and extrapolated these insights into a potential future. The outcome was a set of speculative artifacts that embodied this future in a tangible and thought-provoking form.