Viraj Joshi is a designer, technologist, and futurist.
Futurebabble
A travelling, evolving talk that presents reasons to ‘speculate’ as designers; examples of projects; and methods and approaches.
(2020–)
Previously presented at:
- Innovated by Design (2023) [Watch Online➚]
- RCA Design Futures Symposium (2024)
- IBM Futures Guild (2023)
– Microsoft Fix-Hack-Learn Festival (2022)
- D.Ford (2023)
- Living Summer School (2022-23)
Among other companies and design schools.
Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine➚
Graphic stories of a machine consciousness living in your devices, and trying to fit in your lives.
(2021–)
Order Mini-Comic ‘Misinformation Malarkey’ (2024)➚
Available at Gosh Comics➚, Jam Bookshop➚ and the Cartoon Museum Store➚ in London
Comic Conventions: Small Press Day 2024➚, Winchester Comics Fair 2024➚
Also featured on:
Milan Design Week 2023 [Video➚]
Broadcast from Later [Video➚; Audio➚]
Future-Based Podcast [Audio➚]
A Manifesto of Speculative Design➚
My process and approach in creating speculative outputs.
(2024)
Other Speculative Design methods, Points of view, Stream of Consciousness➚
Postcards from the Future➚
A global design fiction project with curious artefacts and strange situations from probable (and sometimes preferable) worlds.
(2019-21)
Curated in a year long collaboration with designers, technologists, historians, futurists, writers, and curators.
Some partners:
Primer 2021➚ (Global Festival by the Design Futures Initiative)
Speculative Futures Stockholm➚
Speculative Futures Rotterdam➚
Interaction and Speculative Design Project Archive➚
(2016-22)
Including human-machine interaction projects at the RCA, and some fiction work.