General Seminar N°19

Design Fiction

There’s a fair bit of material out there about Design Fiction, even as it is a naescent and burgeoning approach to creative thinking, strategic foresight, innovation, futures design, design practice and making actual “stuff” rather than just pondering what could be. But, I’ll make my own short list of things that might be helpful for providing context for this session of General Seminar.

• Here are several episodes of my Near Future Laboratory Podcast related to Design Fiction (there are many more, as you might guess, but here are some picks!)

  • Near Future Laboratory Podcast N°31 — J. Paul Neeley

  • Near Future Laboratory Podcast N°30 — Dunne & Raby

  • Near Future Laboratory Podcast N°28 — Radha Mistry

  • Near Future Laboratory Podcast N°25 — Katie McCrory

  • Near Future Laboratory Podcast N°4 — David Kirby

• Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction

• Nick Foster’s Presentation to IKEA: Everyday Futures

• The Design Fiction Backstory

• Design Fiction - Medium Article

• Stanford Seminar - Design Fiction

• Futures Literacy Series - Design Fiction

• Designing Tomorrow - Design Fiction Live

• Nick Foster’s “The Future Mundane”

  • Video

  • Essay

• Joseph Lindley’s Dissertation, ‘A Thesis About Design Fiction’

• WEF ‘What is Design Fiction?’

• A Design Fiction Evening with Julian Bleecker, James Bridle, Nick Foster, Cliff Kuang and Scott Paterson

• Project: Curious Rituals

• Project: TBD Catalog

• Project: Corner Convenience

  • Corner Convenience Tiny Film