What's the Coolest Tool? Imagination! I was on Kevin Kelly's ‘Cool Tools Show and Tell’! A fun chat even as I had to limit myself to just four or five 'cool tools' — but the coolests is 'Imagination'. Have a listen!

An online talk at Domus Academy explored the role of imagination and speculative design in shaping the future. Key takeaway? Ambracing ambiguity and imagination is a vital way to anticipate the kinetics of change, as well as create valuable opportunities for the future.

A 3 hour Design Fiction 101 talk and hands-on workshop utilizing the 2023 Work Kit of Design Fiction as an ideation aid.

I facilitated a workshop for Hyper Island Vision Week in which the design brief (a 24 hour sprint) was to create a podcast from the future' — a Design Fiction conceit in which students imagine into a future world and represent the contours of that world through a humble podcast...

In this episode of the Gartner Futures Lab Podcast, host Marty Resnick sits down with Julian Bleecker, founder of Near Future Laboratory, to discuss the use of design fiction in communication and designing plausible future scenarios.

The podcast that talks about creativity, art, digital culture, music, new media, technology, business, but above all about the future. Creative Talks because we believe that creativity is the most important skill. This conversation goes into the evolving nature of work with the rise of artificial intelligence, exploring predictions of...

Design Meets is a Toronto-based and online event about people getting together and sharing their ideas. This presentation by Julian Bleecker will present Design Fiction, a design-led approach to augmenting analytic research by grounding the implications of research into tangible, relatable artifacts.

The second day of the Innovation Land Summit 2024, discussing the intertwined roles of imagination and innovation.

North of Patient aims to paint an inspired landscape of healthcare's future through dialogues with creative and unconventional thinkers globally.

An online lecture and AMA for Dr. Delfina Fantini van Ditmar's `Designing the Future’ Elective

A panel organized for South By Southwest 2024 with Avi Bar-Zeev (XR Guild and Reality Prime), and Andreea Ion Cojocaru.

I visited Chapman University on February 28, 2024, to deliver the annual Bensussen Lecture in the Arts Series, invited by Professor Justin St. P. Walsh. The visit included engaging with students and faculty who have integrated Design Fiction into their curriculum, demonstrating the impact of Near Future Laboratory's work.

Imagination is often dismissed as childish, or a frill. But it also lets us picture alternative futures, and technologies that haven't been invented yet. So how do we harness our imagination? And in an age where Big Tech promises to solve our problems for us, how do we use our...

The Art of the Possible is the art of orienting yourself in the present, imagining the future that you want to live in, and finding the best next step that you can take toward that future. No matter who you are or where you are, there is a best next...

Julian Bleecker explains the development of Design Fiction, a method he pioneered for imagining future scenarios through the creation of tangible artifacts. Julian discusses some of the ways the practice can help guide decision-making and its uses in strategy and communication. Julian invites listeners to explore this interdisciplinary approach through...

Julian Bleecker explains the development of Design Fiction, a method he pioneered for imagining future scenarios through the creation of tangible artifacts. Julian discusses some of the ways the practice can help guide decision-making and its uses in strategy and communication. Julian invites listeners to explore this interdisciplinary approach through...

Broadcast from Later 46: Dad Band Futures, exploring ways by which creativity can be reinvigorated as we work to ignite a creative renaissance. The creation of a scene, pre-festival, when things unexpectedly start to happen.

A closing keynote presentation and helped facilitate a breakout group for a day long immersive seminar & conference on the intersections of virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligene and neuroscience.

In this episode of 'The Futurists,' co-hosts Brett King and Rob Tercik discuss with Julian Bleecker, co-founder of Near Future Laboratory, his unique approach called 'Design Fiction.'

A lecture I gave that underscores the importance of Imagination in collaboration with Structure and includes examples of projects and the practical methodology used to envision and action future design concepts.

Design Fiction entangles design and fiction to create evocative artifacts that express the contexts and outcomes of change. It integrates design with the principles of narrative, speculation, and fiction.

An online lecture that gets deep into the concept, motivation, and origins of Design Fiction. I get into the ways Design Fiction is a kind of prototyping that helps both speculate and materialize possible futures. It is very much an integral part of design work as well as the...

I was asked to deliver a Keynote presentation at the 2022 AIGA National Conference. The presentation was a discussion of Design Fiction and it's 'Why?'. Key takeaways from the presentation were: Design fiction uses prototypes and imaginary objects to spark curiosity and conversations about possible futures; Examples like the Star...

A Six-Part Docuseries from The Franklin Institute: A thrilling journey into the future with The Road to 2050! A closer look at what the next three decades could bring, using science as our guide.

'Netflix Future Of..' is a fun, light, entertaining show asking about the future of everything from gaming and dating, to life after death. I participated as a talking head futures expert. They did spring the dating topic on me though, for which I cannot claim much notable expertise. Pure...

I gave a lecture at Stanford's CS547 course on HCI, and of course it was on'Design Fiction.' This is interesting to listen back on as I forgot about the examples I used 'early on' that came specifically from film. This was during the 'diegetic prototype' emphasis of things. Drawing on...

A keynote presentation to the main audience and hands-on workshop for a group of Google office's creative practitioners during a summit of creative technology leadership and practitioners at Google's offices in Buenos Aires, Argentina.