Hasta La Ideas

Here, for your edification, is a video of Near Future Laboratory’s “Design & Fiction” event in full. On October 24, 2013, IDEO hosted the panel discussion, moderated by Wired‘s Cliff Kuang, featuring sometime collaborators Julian Bleecker, James Bridle, and our own Nick Foster, who mentioned that “it was nice (and we think important) that we were physically together in a room.” Indeed, given the subject matter.

We met to talk about design. And fiction. And the ways of approaching the challenge of all challenges, whatever it may be. We talked about expressing the opportunities those challenges raise as distinctly new tangible forms. As well as the essential value of mundane design. We talked about clarifying the present. We talked about designing the future. And doing both of these things with design. And fiction.

For those of you who can’t afford to spend 90 minutes engrossed in a series of presentations about everything from the so-called “Michael Bay Driving Experience” to 1984-worthy surveillant receptacles, here are a few highlights, but of course I recommend watching it in full (or at least absorbing the audio in the background, podcast-style) to, you know, get a sense of what they’re talking about.

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