“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize that while the terms are linked, they shouldn’t be confused. Diversity is about bringing more people to the table. Decolonization is about changing t

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite.

Being Dogmatic about Defining Speculative Critical Design Future Fiction

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Reviewing Chaim Gingold’s “Building SimCity,” Celine Nguyen finds similarities between tech billionaires’ attempts to build a utopian city in Solano, California, and being a godlike player in “SimCity.”

The Design Education Advisory Committee (DEAC) calls for a ‘Future Design School’, where design thinking is part of everyday learning from primary school.

This is a conversation between Professor Cameron Tonkinwise, and our Design & Futures Lead Oskar Stokholm Østergaard on design-driven missions, transition design, and the role of design and designers in radical societal change

Tech downgrades, it's just business, becoming a billionaire, and building useful things for useless people

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Thinking about voice-enabled assistants, learned services, and the immediate hurdles for these products to overcome.

Enter the wind tunnel (User Zero, Chapter 13)

Coding has always felt to me like an endlessly deep and rich domain. Now I find myself wanting to write a eulogy for it.

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OpenAI, Microsoft, and the OpenOffspring

Dan Hill is Director of the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne. He is a leader in Strategic Design, a mode of practice directed toward...

On Robert Irwin, Star Trek, and the infinite hallways of the future.

Andrew Knight, Head of UK Policy Design Community, invites designers to participate in the Public Design Review.

Creative skills can currently be reproduced using deep learning and neural networks, but their true potential lies in the prospects of collaboration rather than replacement. Two distinct subjectivities, one human and one automated, can meet halfway and produce a captivating mutual symbolic space, brimming with possibilities, but also with dead ends. It is both too early and arrogant to hazard a guess as to the artistic impact AI will exert in the medium term.

Notes prepared for DEFCON31 in Las Vegas

We need to have a chat about worldbuilding. (I’m mostly talking to the futures people, here, rather than the literature people… but the latter may find it of interest anyway, so please …