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Near Future Laboratory Design Fiction Imagine Harder

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Office Hours N°326

CrankGPT, Calgary Futures Forum, and the material history of images

Sabrina Sullivan discussed the Calgary Futures Forum; Alex Kauffmann demonstrated hand-powered local AI; Rodney Frederickson shared tools for tracing how images change over time.

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Near Future Laboratory Design Fiction Imagine Harder

Sep 18, 2026

Office Hours N°325

Music sketches, stubborn demos, culturally specific models, cafés made for photographs, and the precision of letterpress printing occupied this week's discussion.

Abstract purple and pink gradient artwork for FCAT's Design interview with Julian Bleecker.

Sep 14, 2026

A Conversation with FCAT

FCAT's Will Reed interviewed me about imagination, Design Fiction as archaeology of the future, the role of artists alongside engineers, and how a clock radio or teaspoon can make an unfamiliar technology easier to picture.