It’s easy to get all..Silicon Valley when drooling over the possibility of a world chock-full of self-driving cars.

TBD Catalog. It started as a workshop-based collaboration with 19 humans and a few algorithms who willingly allowed me to shepherd them through the thoughts in my head and help show what the world may be like in some odd but likely near future — represented as a product catalog rather than some old-fashioned output…

I want to share with you the latest book project from the Near Future Laboratory. It’s called TBD Catalog — the Design Fiction product catalog for the normal ordinary everyday near future.

How will the so-called beautiful game of global football be different in a world where sport itself, and the culture of the fans who love it, is altered by the rush of data, quantification, analytics and digital delivery? What might a high-stakes match of the near future be like when every move is measured, and ever…

Last October we gathered for a Laboratory day retreat and decided — so long as we’re all together — why don’t we make a thing of it. So, we arranged to do an evening’s gathering with our friends at IDEO. Scott Paterson from IDEO facilitated our way into IDEO’s splendid waterfront facility. We brought beer, IDEO brou…

D&F: A Design & Fiction Evening. Join us on October 24th for an evening of Design & Fiction with the Near Future Laboratory and special guest James Bridle. Explore how design and storytelling can shape our understanding of the present and future. Enjoy free regional beers and engaging discussions in a limited space setting. RSVP on Eventbrite to secure your spot!

For people interested in design fictions, the latest issue of Digital Creativity is a special issue about design fiction. It features papers by people like James Auger or Andrew Morrison, Ragnhild Tronstad and Einar Sneve Martinussen. As proposed by the editor of this issue, Derek Hales, in his introduction entitled…

An idiomatic miss here with this little, darling, silly little camera. First read says to me that crank+camera equals either, like..advance-the-image or, like..crank-the-moving-film through.

After answering the questions of architects in Mosaic, I have recently responded to an interview for the monthly periodical of the Spanish geographer association. The result of the discussion is now online: La leyenda del mapa mudo – Abril 2013