Detroit Imagines Harder

Contributed By: Julian Bleecker

Event Dates: 10/16/24 — 10/18/24

Published On: Saturday, September 7, 2024 at 21:01

Updated On: Friday, October 18, 2024 at 20:29

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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.
For this edition, held October 16-18 2024 at The Jam Handy venue in Detroit, we took as our brief to articulate our perspectives on the future of work by representing our informed insights, professional intutitions, and experienced imaginations in the form of something that we'd look at today as a kind of ‘Employee Manual.’
Of course, this presupposes that in this future the idioms of today — ‘work’, ‘employee’, ‘company’, ‘retirement’, ‘money’ (as the canonical representation of value circulation) and so forth, actually exists in the way they do today. This cannot be assumed the case, although one needs a starting point as well as a sense that, even in some possible future, purpose can be understood to as something like ‘creating value’ and that value circulates in some fashion — that is, it moves, can be incremented and decremented, shared, exchanged, etc, in much the same way this ‘money’ stuff does today.