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🟠 Des-fi 🟡 Sci-fi

I’m in Tempe, Ariz., today for Emerge: Artists and Scientists Redesign the Future, a conference at Arizona State University. One intriguing new way to think about the future is through the concept of “design fiction.” When you first hear the phrase, it sounds slightly nebulous. One usefuldefinition calls design fiction “an approach to design that speculates about new ideas through prototyping and storytelling.”

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🟠 Des-fi

*THIS POST BY Julian Bleecker raises the question: can't you do "design fiction" about fully-functioning objects in the diegesis that are malevolent and make things worse? Of course you can, because imaginary high-tech supervillain gear is all about that. There are tons of cinematic design-fiction about imaginary gear intended for evil mayhem.

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