Speculative Futures LA

The Los Angeles Speculative Futures group bringing together designers, thinkers & technologists to foster learning and practice of design futures methods.

[Speculative Futures LA @la_futures]

Coming Soon! The 2024 Work Kit of Design Fiction! Follow @nearfuturelab to find out when it drops! Supplies will be limited!

[Speculative Futures LA @la_futures]

SuperSeminar S02/E03 Live from Tokyo & Melbourne June 4th 1400 UTC+9

https://t.co/OnGI9IDp5F

[Speculative Futures LA @la_futures]

Episode 083 of the @nearfuturelab podcast is up! https://t.co/mWRilPPtbW

[Speculative Futures LA @la_futures]

https://t.co/XEhv8K96K1

[Tung Nguyen @worksleeve]

Looking forward to this read @nearfuturelab @darthjulian. Also appreciate the cool swag!

[Near Future Laboratory @nearfuturelab]

Everything in The Shop ships free in the USA from now til Wednesday! Use discount code WJYQF7K8CFS5

https://t.co/H92tG1Rkhc

[Speculative Futures LA @la_futures]

Episode 071 of the @nearfuturelab podcast is up with @geoffmanaugh discussing zero gravity sports, ghost social media influencers, and the value of #speculativefiction.

#designfiction

https://t.co/Oz6beMLSKO

[Julian Bleecker @darthjulian]

Artifacts from Design Fiction Futures

https://t.co/TNHcvPMehD

#designfiction #imagineharder

[Speculative Futures LA @la_futures]

Episode 070 of the @nearfuturelab podcast is up! More Than Human-Centered Design! ((Whaaat!?))

https://t.co/u8wws3eBpd

[ASU CSI @imaginationASU]

Join us June 14 at 9am Pacific for “Reimagining the Future of [X],” a conversation featuring @Annaleen, Tobias S. Buckell, @august_cole, @shrapnelofme, @torystephens + @KevinBankston! Learn more and register (it’s free): https://t.co/Cf1GN59KUL

[Near Future Laboratory @nearfuturelab]

Ohellzyeah.

[Julian Bleecker @darthjulian]

The Manual of Design Fiction

2nd Printing Coming Soon!

#designfiction

[Julian Bleecker @darthjulian]

@nearfuturelab podcast Episode 068 - a digest of @generalseminar S04E01 on Futures of Fashion!

https://t.co/RJ9i5aPCOz

#designfiction #imagineharder

[Julian Bleecker @darthjulian]

This is gonna be fun!

#imagineharder

[Speculative Futures LA @la_futures]

Episode 067 of @nearfuturelab podcast is up with Tucker Viemeister and @darthjulian on all the usual platform endpoints!

https://t.co/J71xns3Jqp

#designfiction #speculativedesign #industrialdesign

[Speculative Futures LA @la_futures]

Episode 067 of @nearfuturelab podcast is up with Tucker Viemeister and @darthjulian on all the usual platform endpoints!

https://t.co/J71xns3Jqp

#designfiction #speculativedesign #industrialdesign

[Christopher Kent @Cekent]

The haul from @nearfuturelab this morning. Wasn’t expecting it to ship this fast! @darthjulian @nicolasnova @fabiengirardin

[Julian Bleecker @darthjulian]

The 2023 Work Kit of Design Fiction! 100 mad prompt cards for imagining all kinds of near futures. I ran the numbers: there are exactly 916,038 possible futures in this 8 ounce box. That's lots of potential. More than 114k futures per ounce, to be precise.
https://t.co/dFh1jr1BYj

[Julian Bleecker @darthjulian]

Episode 066 in which we learn what kettlebells for the brain look like for your Daily Design Fiction Work Out with @drelabre
https://t.co/gGtw69AhUT
(pssst — The Work Kit of Design Fiction drops this Thursday April 20th! https://t.co/dFh1jr29NR)
#designfiction #speculativedesign

[Speculative Futures LA @la_futures]

This. Sounds. Fun.

[Julian Bleecker @darthjulian]

Check this out tho - this Tue Apr 11th at 11a PT I'll be here with the gang at @criticaldesign_ talking about the ways #designfiction can reinvigorate our imagination and get out of these doldrums of apocalyptic futures. $0. Online. Bring the Entenmann's. https://t.co/smWB9YNx3e

[Speculative Futures LA @la_futures]

Design Fiction Debriefs! How do you create a magazine from the future - and why would you when there are so many futures reports PowerPoints 3-ring binders clever futurists and vision videos anyway?? 🤷🏽‍♂️ 🤖

https://t.co/9jKwUFktWC

#designfiction #masterclass