Near Future Laboratory Podcast

By Julian Bleecker

The Near Future Laboratory Podcast is conversations at the vanguard of design, technology, futures, and culture, hosted by Julian Bleecker — founder of the Near Future Laboratory.

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August 06, 2021 N°14 - Speculative Design, IOT & Cultures of Innovation with Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino is an author, consultant, public speaker, entrepreneur and designer living in London.
She is the author of Creating a Culture of Innovation and Smarter Homes
She is the founder of the Low Carbon Design Institute, a residency for creative people focused on climate change.
She was named 1st in a list of 100 Internet of Things Influencers (Postscapes, 2016), 2nd in Top 100 Internet of Things Thought Leaders (Onalytica, 2014) and in the Top 100 Influential Tech Women on Twitter (Business Insider, 2014). She’s been included in the long-list of Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Women in Tech in the UK in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
She studied industrial design at the University of Montreal and interaction design at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.
You can find her work at designswarm
Please support this podcast, which you can do at patreon.com/nearfuturelaboratory. You can also buy me a coffee!
You may also be interested in the Design Fiction newsletter, a somewhat weekly newsletter on topics related to design, innovation, culture and technology. As well, we have a new platform for sense-making called General Seminar. New sessions are in the planning phase. Sign up there to be notified of upcoming seminars on Augmented Reality, the Metaverse, and Design Fiction.
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1h 15min
July 28, 2021 N°13 - Tina He on DAOs, Calvino and Blockchain Social Mechanics
Tina He is a writer, designer, and investor dedicated to creating technology that fosters creativity, growth, and knowledge.
Her essay "The New Frontier of Belonging" caught my attention as it navigated through a number of disparate terrains while describing the peculiar kinds of social formations arising out of blockchain mechanics — and it leads with a reference to Italo Calvino, which I found to be unexpected and beautiful.
Please support my podcast: https://patreon.com/nearfuturelaboratory
Or buy me a small coffee: https://ko-fi.com/bleeckerj
Here are some links related to this episode:
https://tinahe.xyz/
https://fakepixels.substack.com/
https://desktop.pacecapital.com/
https://fakepixels.substack.com/p/fkpxls-the-new-frontier-of-belonging
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1h 5min
June 28, 2021 N°12 - NFTs, Blockchain, Social Tokens with Sean Bonner
A discussion about the social futures and social dynamics inherent in NFTs and Blockchain, with Sean Bonner.
See his https://nftart.lol which compares various NFT platforms. And his blog: http://blog.seanbonner.com/nft/
He also publishes a semi-weekly email newsletter that I can highly recommend, called The Crowd https://tinyletter.com/seanbonner.
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2h 11min
May 28, 2021 N°11 - PizzaDAO with Daniel van de Ghinste & Jed Berk
A long, ranging, technically challenged conversation with two participants in PizzaDAO which formed spontaneously on Clubhouse based on the idea to have a global pizza party.
On March 15th, 2021 they opened Rare Pizzas Box NFT reservations to the public and raised $1.3 Million for real, cheese-y pizza.
What is a DAO anyway, and what's it got to do with the future, let alone pizza?
https://www.rarepizzas.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-van-de-ghinste-46663937
http://cargocollective.com/jedberk
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3h 2min
May 05, 2021 N°10 - Julian Bleecker: Q&A by Jonas Schmidt
In this episode I move to the otherside of the Q&A table. Jonas Schmidt had contacted me to do a Q&A for his master's program research, specifically on the Near Future Laboratory and our own approach to design and creative work. It was good fun — so I asked Jonas if he wouldn't mind if we made it into a mirrorworld podcast episode and he happily agreed.
Please support this podcast on Patreon - https://patreon.com/nearfuturelaboratory — Thank you!
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40min
April 20, 2021 N°09- Devon Powers and The Trend of Trends
Devon Powers is an Associate Professor of Advertising at the Department of Advertising and PR in the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. Devon studies consumer culture, cultural history, and cultural circulation/intermediation, with a focus on trends, branding, and popular music. We discuss her book "On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future".
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1h 3min
April 11, 2021 N°08 - Alexis Lloyd: Futurist Not Futurist
Alexis Lloyd is a product design and innovation leader who has spent her career designing experiences for how we read, write, and share information on the internet. She is currently the VP of Product Design at Medium and has previously led design and innovation work at The New York Times R&D Lab, Axios, and Automattic. She co-leads the Ethical Futures Lab and has a deep curiosity about how humans and machines co-evolve with one another.
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53min
March 29, 2021 N°07 - Madeline Ashby: Futurism, Foresight, and Science Fiction Part 2
This is Part 2 of my conversation with Madeline Ashby who is an American-Canadian science fiction writer and futurist, best known for her 2016 novel Company Town. She is a graduate of OCAD University's Master of Design in Strategic Foresight & Innovation.
If you found this episode a worthy use of your time and is helping your futures brain bulk up, consider become a patron over at our Patreon — or you can offer a tip which is easy to do nowadays over at ko-fi.org/bleecker
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40min
March 29, 2021 N°06 - Madeline Ashby: Futurism, Foresight, and Science Fiction Part 1
Madeline Ashby is an American-Canadian science fiction writer and futurist, best known for her 2016 novel Company Town. She is a graduate of OCAD University's Master of Design in Strategic Foresight & Innovation.
If you found this episode a worthy use of your time and is helping your futures brain bulk up, consider become a patron over at our Patreon https://patreon.com/nearfuturelaboratory — or you can offer a tip which is easy to do nowadays over at https://ko-fi.org/bleecker
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37min
March 08, 2021 N°05 - Artist and Filmmaker Anab Jain
Anab Jain is co-founder, along with Jon Arden, of Superflux which is a design studio based in London that create worlds, stories, and tools that provoke and inspire us to engage with the precarity of our rapidly changing world.
If you found this episode a worthy use of your time and attention consider become a patron. You can do that at patreon.com/nearfuturelaboratory — or you can offer a tip which is easy to do nowadays over at ko-fi.org/bleecker
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51min

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