Near Future Laboratory - Incomplete Workshops Index
A brief & incomplete index of Workshops Near Future Laboratory has organized
We can help you and your organization integrate our approach to discovery, ideation, creative exploration, and translating insights into actional strategy. We facilitate a limited number of workshops each year. Use the contact form below to begin planning your workshop, and have a look at our Services to see what might be appropriate for your needs.
A 3 hour Design Fiction 101 talk and hands-on workshop utilizing the 2023 Work Kit of Design Fiction as an ideation aid.
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Sep 16, 2024
A Two-Day Design Fiction Workshop & Summit on possible futures of AI.
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Aug 20, 2024
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...
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A 24 hour Design Fiction Sprint to Imagine Possible AI Futures Artifacts
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Sep 13, 2023
What is television in a world of AI? What does it look like? How is it experienced? What are possible integrations across "channels"?
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Nov 01, 2021
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...
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Oct 01, 2015
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.
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Aug 31, 2015
A commission to introduce Design Fiction as a research methodology by IKEA and Stockholm University's Mobile Life Centre.
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Mar 01, 2013
“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.”
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Apr 01, 2012
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...
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