Near Future Laboratory 2025 Partial & Incomplete Talks & Appearances &c. Index
Near Future Laboratory 2025 Partial & Incomplete Talks & Appearances &c. Index
An AI-based illustration portrait of Julian Bleecker that does not look like him
Jun 15, 2025
A conversation with Steve Fisher that gets into my personal history with futures, design, science-fiction, engineering and how all of that led to instantiating design fiction as a practice. We talk about the artifacts of imagination, how we can use design fiction to think about the future, and how we...
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Mar 29, 2025
I gave a talk at USC in the context of a Future of Work workshop that was organized through the USC Iovine and Young Academy for their Master of Science in Integrated Design, Business and Technology program. For my talk I focused on how I used design fiction and speculative design...
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Mar 27, 2025
A talk at Los Angeles architecture firm Moore Ruble Yudell about the role of design fiction in architecture and urban design. The talk was part of a series of discussions on the future of design and its impact on urban environments. The talk focused on how design fiction can be used...
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Mar 19, 2025
This discussion explores the concept of Design Fiction as a methodology for creating tangible and evocative prototypes of possible near futures to understand the consequences of decision-making. Julian Bleecker, who coined the term with Bruce Sterling, elaborates on his interdisciplinary approach combining engineering, design, and speculative storytelling. The conversation delves...
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Jan 08, 2025
Reawakening of curiosity and the collective effort to envision and build more habitable worlds.
I appeared on an episode of Radha's podcast Future Feelings in which we converse and explore the vital importance of Imagination in designing futures, with me emphasizing the notion that it is helpful to think that the...
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