Media

Media	Research Codes	Information
2025: A Better Care Future	🟠 Des-fi	Far from portraying a glossy utopia where machines seamlessly assume responsibility for gaps in social care, 2025: A Better Care Future portrays a more realistic – maybe even mundane – 'frictionful' near future in which technology itself doesn’t quite work and needs human support.
A Digital Tomorrow	🟠 Des-fi	"A Digital Tomorrow" is a design fiction video produced for Curious Rituals, a research project conducted in July-August 2012 by Nicolas Nova (The Near Future Laboratory / HEAD-Genève), Katherine Miyake, Nancy Kwon and Walton Chiu from the media design program. This research project was about gestures, postures and digital rituals that typically emerged with the use of digital technologies (computers, mobile phones, sensors, robots, etc.).
Aerosmith - Amazing (Official Music Video)	🟣 SC	The use of VR headset.
Architecture + Philosophy Series by DigitalFutures	🔘 Arch 🟤 PP	What can architects learn from philosophy?
Augmented (hyper)Reality: Augmented City 3D	🟣 SC 🔘 Arch	Keiichi Matsuda
Coca-Cola AR Vending Machine	🟣 SC	Reinventing the vending machine with AR: Coca-Cola's first AR powered vending machine with gesture-based navigation and advanced body tracking allowed users to experience magic as they play, engage, virtually try on merch, and explore trending Snapchat lenses.
David Mattin - The merger of the physical and digital will fuel innovation for decades	🟣 SC 🔵 FS	Next Conference, 2023
Fictitious futures, virtual development and visual language	🟠 Des-fi 🟣 SC 🔵 FS	Antony Funnell / 2011
Fly Me To The Moon aka Dinner with Friends	🟠 Des-fi	Four Friends pay for dinner in the future using integrated mobile payments, credit cards, private coins and corporate space currency; while their waiter is saving/earning enough space currency to win a sub-orbit space trip.
How to remain human with Monika Bielskyte, PROTOPIA FUTURES	🟠 Des-fi 🟣 SC 🔵 FS	This is a recording of the presentation of Monika Bielskyte, Founder at PROTOPIA FUTURES, as part of Meta Festival 2022.
humanandrobotcity-themovie	🟡 Sci-fi	What if we design a city for humans and robots to learn from each other?
Mitigation of Shock	🟠 Des-fi 🔵 FS	Mitigation of Shock (2019) is an immersive installation by Superflux that takes the form of a domestic living space from London in 2050. Using extrapolations from current climate change data it explores a future world where economic and political fragility, broken supply chains, social fragmentation and food insecurity have become the norm.
One Day In MR: How Spatial Computing Effects Every Day Life	🟣 SC
Permission to Muck About	🟠 Des-fi	Design Research Works project by David Philip Green and Joseph Lindley.
Phil Balagtas talk on Design is Speculative	🟠 Des-fi	Futures Design Thinking in 2019
Planet City	🔵 FS 🟠 Des-fi	Immersive film by film director and speculative architect Liam Young
Planet City and the return of global wilderness	🔵 FS 🟠 Des-fi 🟡 Sci-fi	Immersive film by film director and speculative architect Liam Young
Redesigning the World	🔵 FS 🟠 Des-fi 🔘 Arch 🟡 Sci-fi	Dezeen has teamed up with Twinmotion to host a live panel discussion exploring the work of creatives and scientists who are reimagining planet Earth.
Retrofuturism: Artificial Futures by Sleepcore	🔵 FS 🟠 Des-fi
SCI-Arc Fiction and Entertainment Series	🟡 Sci-fi
Serial Experiments Lain	🟡 Sci-fi	Serial Experiments Lain is a Japanese anime television series created and co-produced by Yasuyuki Ueda, written by Chiaki J. Konaka and directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura in 1998.
Shadowed City	🟠 Des-fi 🔘 Arch	This film is the final deliverable of Speculative Design studio class at MFA Transdisciplinary design at Parsons School of design. In this film, they presented an imagined life of living in the future New York City, where there is a significant lack of sunlight at street level due to the continous uprising of super tall buildings.
Spatial Bodies: Hong Kong & Shenzhen	🟠 Des-fi	Commissioned by the UABB 2019, AUJIK's latest work Spatial Bodies: Shen Zhen & HongKong(2019) is exhibited in MOCAUP "Ascending City". AUJIK applies a conceptual approach to Shenzhen, re-creating the architectural domain to something that resembles electronic components and circuits which are interconnected like a huge computer motherboard.
Stanford Seminar - Design Fiction, 2017	🟠 Des-fi	Julian Bleecker. Near Future Laboratories
The Design fiction Matrix	🟠 Des-fi
The Futurists (1967)	🔵 FS
The Human Scale	🔵 FS 🔘 Arch	With the majority of the world population in urban areas, architect Jan Gehl is reimagining how to make cities more sustainable and livable. Rather than examining structures, Gehl & his team meticulously analyze spaces where people interact.
The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)	🔴 HCI 🌀 DTech
The Selfish Ledger - Google	🟠 Des-fi	This internal video from 2016 (leaked to the Verge) by Nick Foster shows a Google concept for how total data collection could reshape society.
Ulmer - “ELECTRACY: Writing to Avatar”	🌀DTech
Uninvited Guests	🟠 Des-fi	Uninvited Guests is a short film that explores the frictions between an elderly man and his smart home. This film was created by Superflux Lab for the ThingTank project.
Why Spatial Computing Matters - The past, present, and future of human computer interaction	🟣 SC	A live panel recording from SXSW
Xerox’s Paradox	🌀DTech	A new workwear collection for the age of intelligent supertasking.
XR Tradeshow 2028	🟠 Des-fi 🟣 SC	A class project for "Designing XR Experiences" in UC Berkeley by Michael Naimark.
Year 1999 A D	🟠 Des-fi 🔘 Arch	In the "1999 House of Tomorrow," each family member's activities are enabled by a central computer and revolve around products remarkably similar to those made by the sponsor. Power comes from a self-contained fuel cell, which supports environmental controls, an automatic cooking system, and a computer-assisted "education room."