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IKEA Catalog from a Near Future
2015
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
Julian Bleecker _ Contributor, Concept, Creative Director
Along with 28 additional contributors below
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We were commissioned to workshop and introduce Design Fiction as a research methodology by IKEA and Stockholm University's Mobile Life Centre. We worked with researchers in a practical hands-on workshop to make sense of the trends of the day (2015), their research areas, and possible evolutions of home life, consumer trends and needs, and related topics in the categories of domestic life, food, urban life, travel, leisure, and entertainment. We developed and refined concepts through a focussed two-day workshop. We took these concepts, continued to evolve them and finally represent them in the form of a product catalog we 'brought back' from IKEA's near future. Refer to the IKEA workshop page and the IKEA Catalog Project Page

A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
A photo from the Design Fiction project An IKEA Catalog from a Near Future by Julian Bleecker
An additional image the workshop that lead to IKEA Catalog from the Future
An additional image the workshop that lead to IKEA Catalog from the Future

Contributors

Julian Bleecker, PhD
_ Contributor, Concept, Creative Director
Professor Barry Brown, PhD
_ Editor, Contributor
Nicolas Nova, PhD
_ Contributor
Marco D’Adamo
_ Contributor
Mareike Glöss
_ Contributor
Joakim Formo
_ Contributor
Maria Holm
_ Contributor
Kristina Höök
_ Contributor
Eva-Carin Banka Johnson
_ Contributor
Anna Karlsson
_ Contributor
Elsa Kosmack-Vaara
_ Contributor
Jarmo Laaksolahti
_ Contributor
Airi Lampinen
_ Contributor
Lucian Leahu
_ Contributor
Vincent Lewandowski,
_ Contributor
Donald McMillan
_ Contributor
Anders Mellbratt
_ Contributor
Johanna Mercurio
_ Contributor
Cristian Norlin
_ Contributor
Johanna Mercurio
_ Contributor
Stefania Pizza
_ Contributor
Asreen Rostami
_ Contributor
Mårten Sundquist
_ Contributor
Konrad Tollmar
_ Contributor
Vasiliki Tsaknaki
_ Contributor
Jinyi Wang
_ Contributor
Charles Windlin
_ Contributor
Mikael Ydholm
_ Contributor
Boris
_ https://www.itsalreadytomorrow.com/
_ Art Direction, Illustrations, Production, Artist

Publisher

Near Future Laboratory

Specifications

Size 8.19 x 8.82 in Square
Pages 12 Pages incl cover
Binding Simple Stapled
Process 4/4 Digital Printing
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Notes

  1. Developed during the 2015 Domestic Futures Workshop at Mobile Life Centre at Stockholm University
  2. Resulted in the paper Design Fiction in Academic and Industry Collaboration also available on ACM's website.
  3. Purchase a copy of the PDF at shop.nearfuturelaboratory.com.
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