Why is it a struggle for creatives to self-promote their hard work? I should say 'some' creatives. Perhaps I should say 'most'? Tyler the Creator's bewilderment at why creators shy away from promoting their work, was a poignant consideration of this challenge, and was shared in a post by Yancey Strickler from Metalabel. I share some experiences I've had in this context, including the tragic difficulty co-authors I've worked with had, to the point where the collaboration broke down as they could not do the work. It wasn't a refusal so much as a basic inability to do the mechanics necessary to promote The Manual of Design Fiction. Promoting one's work is part of doing the work, despite the discomfort it may cause.

the work kit of design fiction

ANDI Innovation Land Summit 2024

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

..There's no question in my mind that you could create a whole community just around collecting rocks that look like shoes. If you start putting your passion onto the Internet, you're going to attract other people who have similar interests. It's a wonderful machine for that. Or it's a ecology for collecting affinities or attracting affinities. I think once you put a stake in the ground and you kind of start creating a locus of energy around a particular thing, you're attracting other people who have that same interest, and you're also creating that interest in other people.

A short essay on the complexity of the relationship between creativity and commercialism in design, highlighting the need for a collaborative approach between creativity (design, as a catch-all) and structure ('the business') as a strategy for earthly survival.

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.

Discussing the futures of creative arts practices, innovation, policy, and the creative economy

Causal Islands is about bringing together experts and enthusiasts from many different backgrounds and sharing and learning together. We are creative technologists, researchers, and builders, exploring what the future of computing can be. The LA community edition on Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 has themes of building and running networks together, exploring the future through creativity and poetics of computing, tools for thought and other interfaces for human knowledge, emerging and rethinking social networks, generative AI as a humane tool for people, and the journey of building a more distributed web.