Is AI an instinctively political animal?  Why would a man grill doggies in the pouring rain? Are you turned on by sci-fi gear? Like, sexually.... 
Hopefully you can find the answers to some of these in this, the Hamburg Design Review's first ever Sketch Pod. That's sketches, short stories, our first sponsor (!), and other bits, all knitted together rather artfully by the musical wool of our house band. 
We hope you enjoy it. 
The Editor,
HDR xx(x)