Office Hours N°314 Weekly Office Hours. June 26, 2026, 9:00-10:30 AM Pacific, on Zoom.
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| Weekly Office Hours is open for this Friday. Come by for the usual generous, curious, smart group conversation around Design Fiction, speculative practice, creative work, side projects, tools, systems, and whatever else is moving through the Lab orbit this week.
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project-share slots open. If you have something you want help with, bring it. The format is tight: 10 minutes to introduce the project, share slides, show what you are making, or frame the question, followed by 20 minutes of polite, useful group feedback and help.
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 On sale Four printed references for Design Fiction, imagination, artifacts from possible futures, and speculative scenarios. The Manual of Design Fiction, It's Time to Imagine Harder, TBD Catalog, and Androids Dream of Electric Sheep are bundled together as a compact shelf of Near Future Laboratory practice.
If Office Hours gives you the conversation, these books give you the longer-form references: methods, examples, prompts, artifacts, and ways to keep your own work moving. Sale bundle Shop the books
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 Upcoming event Human by Design: Who Will We Become? On June 30, I’ll join Professor John E. Katsos and host Felix Zeltzer for a Dubai Future Horizons conversation on identity, ethics, resilience, and the human capabilities we will need to navigate the futures we are creating.
The session is live on Zoom at 10:00 AM Eastern, 7:00 AM Pacific, and 6:00 PM Dubai time. Register on Zoom
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 Denver workshop Futuring in Print at The Shop at MATTER In collaboration with The Shop at MATTER, I’ll be running a workshop and seminar on futuring on June 27 in Denver with Becky Vartabedian, PhD.
The seminar covers the history of futuring, methods and tools, and how the practice is evolving in the context of AI and other emerging technologies. The workshop is a hands-on session where participants can apply futuring techniques to their own projects and challenges. RSVP on Eventbrite
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Project-share slots Want to share a side project? Sign up to do a project share at Office Hours. You get 10 minutes for the presentation, slide share, demo, or introduction, then 20 minutes of generous, polite group feedback and help.
Bring a rough question, an unfinished prototype, an idea that needs witnesses, or a project that would benefit from other people's attention. Sign up to share
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