Join me at the LA Design Festival for a hands-on introduction to futuring through Design Fiction. In this compact workshop, you'll explore how to prototype possible futures using artifacts rather than predictions. We’ll step beyond traditional storytelling to create tangible glimpses into what could be—using props, products, and everyday ephemera from worlds just around the corner. Come and stretch your imagination with us as we explore the near future in a playful, practical way. We'll be working in small groups on guided, hands-on exercises designed to spark imagination and make futures...

​Futurespaces and Near Future Laboratory bring you SideShow!
​One night. A room full of artists, designers, filmmakers, and creative people sharing the work they’re making outside the brief. Sound experiments. Illegible interfaces. Broken narratives. Tools bent into new shapes. Ideas with no client, no deadline, no plan—just the need to try something no one asked for. A rare glimpse into experimental ventures headed straight into unknown territory.
​Sideshow is a space for work that’s personal, unruly, and unfinished—kept alive in spite of economic pressure and the pull of everything more urgent. ...

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...