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.

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

A Two-Day Design Fiction Workshop & Summit on possible futures of AI.

I helped facilitate a workshop for Hyper Island Vision Week: use Design Fiction to create a 'podcast from the future' — a Design Fiction conceit in which participants imagine into a future world and represent the contours of that world through a humble podcast that has come back from the...

A 24 hour Design Fiction Sprint to Imagine Possible AI Futures Artifacts

What is television in a world of AI? What does it look like? How is it experienced? What are possible integrations across "channels"?

An internal workshop that presented the value of Design Fiction for creative practice. It was conducted for the benefit of a design and creative team at Apple that desired to integrate Design Fiction and speculative practices into its toolbox of approaches and methodologies. The workshop consisted of lecture, discussion, Q&A...

The 2019 Q2 Future Workplace presentation outlines strategic foresight for designing adaptive, human-machine collaborative work environments that prioritize long-term well-being, cognitive ergonomics, and responsive spaces for the future of work.

A very short format 4 hour Design Fiction workshop consisting of a "Design Fiction 101" presentation, discussion with Q&A, and hands-on workshop activities.

Imagining a future of self-driving cars using the humble quick-start guide as a container of the implications and contingencies of the autonomous way of life.

A commission to 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...

“It's an exciting attempt to create diegetic prototypes and sell them to the entertainment industry, just as if you were Syd Mead or something, and hey wow, great idea, hope it works, where's mine, oh thank you, why this is fascinating.”

TBD Catalog stands as the first and quintessential example of a Design Fiction project. It effectively navigated a full Design Fiction process, involving a diverse group of participants from multiple fields in a futures workshop. Together, they explored emerging trends, examined their implications, and extrapolated these insights into a potential...

A panel discussion and subsequent workshop on the topic of Design Fiction & Speculative Design with Anab Jain, Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, and Michelle Kazprzak. We are rapidly entering (and perhaps even have already entered) an era where we are able to print 3D objects at our desks, make and share laser-cut...

A workshop on the value of failures in design at the 6th Swiss Design Network conference in Basel Switzerland.

The Microsoft Social Computing Symposium, 2010 edition, held at New York University’s ITP, and sponsored Microsoft Research’s Creative Systems Group. The theme of the event was on the theme of “city as platform”