SPECULATIVE DESIGN WORKSHOP (04.23) 🇬🇧

A Speculative Design Workshop for Global Innovation Design at the RCA / Imperial Coltege hat put students in an extreme climate context to create radical solutions for a better planet.

Co-created with Audrey Gaulard.
Run with Larissa Kunstel-Tabet

PRINT COMIC (03.24)

A cautionary tale about a world where all human-made knowledge, art, and science is replaced with machine generated, incoherent, purpose-less “content”. How does humanity cope with this? Can Eliza, the machine consciousness residing in all global technological systems save this world from a Misinformation Malarkey? ‘Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine’ is the Science Fiction of today.

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Also Available at
Gosh Comics, Soho, London
Cartoon Museum Store, London

WRITTEN MANIFESTO (01.24)

"A Manifesto for Speculative Design Practice" that rationalises the "Evidence > Extrapolation" process that I’ve iterated upon over the past few years, so I could have a blueprint for tackling speculation projects in the future.

Read here

SPECULATIVE DESIGN WORKSHOP (11.23) 🇬🇧

A Speculative Design Workshop for Innovation Design Engineering that put students in an extreme climate context to create radical solutions for a better planet.

Co-created with Audrey Gaulard.
More details.

SYMPOSIUM (11.23) 🇬🇧

AI and Design Symposium at the RCA’s Design Products Course. More details, and some pictures.

KEYNOTE (10.23) 🇬🇧

A talk about Speculative Design as means of imagining and delivering better futures; for Innovation Design Engineering, and Global Innovation Design – double masters projects between the RCA and Imperial College.
Included a deep dive on my journey with Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine.

CARTOONS (09.23) 🌐

After 2.5 years, Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine is done with 120 cartoons that critique the place of Tech in our lives; in the style of the New Yorker Cartoons.
Next up, Eliza will feature in short sci-fi graphic stories, starting with “Misinformation Malarkey”.

KEYNOTE (09.23) 🇧🇪

A talk about Speculative Design as means of imagining and delivering better futures; for Living Summer School 2023.

GUEST TALK (08.23) 🌐

▶️ Watch online

‘FutureBabble’ investigates speculation as a craft and its value in research, design, and innovation processes. It seeks to validate the place of futures and fiction beyond ‘mere’ provocation and imagination.

GUEST TALK (07.23) 🇮🇳

Guest talk with Wolffkraft – a Strategy and Design Studio; where I did on Speculative Design as a topic, showed the process behind Eliza - the Ghost in Every Machine and Postcards from the Future; and did an exercise around “Her” the 2013 Spike Jonze film.

Their blog recounts the event in great detail and kind words.

GUEST TALK (06.23) 🌐

Guest talk with IBM’s Strategic Foresight Guild on Speculative Design, and the criticality and speculation in Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine.

PANEL DISCUSSION (06.23) 🇬🇧

▶️ Watch on youtube

Panel Discussion hosted by Madelaine Dowd for the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design under the title Design.Resilience; along with Ved Sen and Dylan Yamada-Rice.

Presented my short story “Our Absolute Last Hope is Absolute”

GUEST TALK (05.23) 🌐

Guest talk for D-Ford on Speculative design, and the criticality and speculation in Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine.

PANEL DISCUSSION (04.23) 🇮🇹

▶️ Watch on Youtube

THE FUTURE PROMPT:// a panel hosted by Domus Academy and Speculative Futures Milan, where I sat down with Alexandra Mihai, Simone Rebaudengo, and Tobias Revell, and we spoke through our Design Fiction around AI and design.
This piece of work became Eliza no. 100.

RESEARCH ARTICLE (04.23) 🌐

Read here
For World Futures Review
Featuring Postcards from the Future.

PODCAST (04.23) 🌐

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🎧 Listen to Podcast

I joined Tobias Revell, Sydney Allen-Ash, and Robert Bolton to talk drop-shipped, crowd-funded cloud-seeding; the uncanny bigotry of AI generated fashion models; and how we ended up in the era of “quantitative aesthetics” — on Broadcast From Later.

CEPT, AHMEDABAD
GUEST TALK (04.23) 🇮🇳

Guest talk for CEPT, Ahmedabad.

CARTOONS (03.23) 🌐

13 captions to an Eliza drawing from 13 prolific creatives, for the cartoon’s 2nd anniversary.

IAAD BOLOGNA AND TURIN
GUEST TALK (02.23) 🇮🇹

Guest talk on AI-Futures featuring “Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine” for IAAD Bologna and Turin, in a week long session about tying AI solutions to SDG goals, by Elena Falomo.

ACCENTURE SONG
TALK AND WORKSHOP (01.23) 🇬🇧

For Fjord / Accenture Song’s business designers.

UNIVERSITY OF ARTS, LONDON
GUEST LECTURE (11.22) 🇬🇧

For UAL’s Climate Challenge: Creative Collaborations module for it’s undergrads, I debuted my climate fiction piece “Dreams of a Resilient Planet.”

SOCIETY 5.0 FESTIVAL 2022
EXHIBITION (10.22) 🇳🇱

Eliza and Postcards from the Future were invited to be a part of the Speculative Design Library at Society 5.0 Festival in Amsterdam.

LIVING SUMMER SCHOOL 2022
TALK (09.22) 🇧🇪

I was invited for a keynote at Living Summer School 2022 by Eiland Collective where young activists, entrepreneurs, designers and artists explored the future of living in Kortrijk, Belgium.

TUTORING (09.22) 🇮🇳

Led a 6 week Design Futures Module for MIT-Institute of Design’s masters students.

SCIENCE FICTION WRITING, DRAWING WORKSHOP (03-07.22) 🇬🇧

See all stories on their website.
After the workshop done by Arthur Gouillart and me for Fjord London's annual "Equinox" festival, I curated the output stories along with an internal team of illustrators and designers.

ARTICLE (07.22) 🖥️

Read on UXMag.com: An analysis of human-machine interactions in a spatial internet future with my weekly AI fiction cartoon: Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine.

TALK AND WORKSHOP (07.22) 🇧🇪🇪🇸🇵🇹

Conducted a workshop to introduce design futures techniques to Fjord business designers in Spain and Portugal.

TUTORING (06-12.22) 🖥️

Had the pleasure of tutoring Shruthi Venkat for Experimental Realism’s 2nd year.

GUEST LECTURE (04.22) 🇦🇪

Speculative design guest lecture for NYU Abu Dhabi’s “Manus et Machina” undergrad module.

ARTICLE (04.22) 🖥️

An analysis of human-machine interactions in a spatial internet future with my weekly AI fiction cartoon: Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine.

TALK AND WORKSHOP (03.22) 🇬🇧

With Arthur Gouillart, for Fjord London
For Fjord's annual festival, Equinox, Arthur and I did an hour-long talk followed by a workshop for writing Science Fiction.

GUEST LECTURE (03.22) 🇩🇪

Microsoft invited me for a guest lecture at their “Fix-hack-learn” / FHL week.

CARTOONS (03.22) 🖥️

Eliza – The Ghost in Every Machine turns one year old and we have amazing guests on writing and art duties for the celebration!

SHORT STORY (02.22) 🖥️

A fictional news report set in 2050, a cautionary tale, written for One Day 2050.

SHORT STORY (02.22) 🇬🇧

Published as a part of ‘Vital Signals’ a collection of near future fiction works, available now.

TUTORING (01.21) 🇬🇧

Speculative design workshop for Innovation Design Engineering at the RCA / Imperial College for 2nd year masters students with Arthur Gouillart.

INTERVIEW ON PODCAST (12.21) 🇳🇱

Interview featuring Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine on the Future Based Podcast.

PANEL DISCUSSION (12.21) 🇬🇧🇺🇸

AI futures panel discussion at Gaea Festival at Mika Bushwick, NYC, watch now.

KEYNOTE (11.21) 🇺🇸

For Newell Brands’ internal conference, read more.

MEDIUM ARTICLE (11.21) 🖥️

Differences between Design Fiction and Design Futures, read now.

PANEL DISCUSSION (10.21) 🇨🇦

Done at 4S Festival online.

TUTORING (09.21) 🇮🇳

Led a 6 week Design Futures Module for MIT-Institute of Design’s masters students.

MEDIUM ARTICLE (08.21) 🖥️

Read now.

TUTORING (07.21) 🖥️

Had the pleasure of mentoring Martin Comisso Perez for Experimental Realism's debut year.

WORKSHOP (07.21) 🌍

“Postcards from the Future” live Design Fiction creation workshop at the Primer ‘21 conference.

INTERVIEW IN PRINT MAGAZINE (05.21) 🇮🇳

Design India Magazine, May 2021, issue 129.

TUTORING (04.21) 🇬🇧

Started as an interaction and speculative design tutor at Innovation Design Engineering, a 2 years masters course between the Royal College of Art and Imperial College, London.

PANEL DISCUSSION (04.21) 🇸🇪

Was a host and speaker at Speculative Future, Stockholm's "Futures Jargon Mythbusting" event, watch on YouTube.

INTERVIEW (04.21) 🖥️

AIxDesign featured an interview with me on their Medium.

MEDIUM ARTICLE (01.21) 🖥️

Read now.

WORKSHOP (01.21) 🇳🇱

“Postcards from the Future” live Design Fiction creation workshop. Read medium article.

PUBLICATION (12.20) 🇩🇪

2 of my products designed in support of Kensho Miyoshi's PhD about Objects in Motion are now in a book published by Birkhäuser.

EXHIBITION (11.20) 🖥️

Design fiction piece + film by Nadia Piet and me, featured as in the “Futuring Peace” exhibition by The United Nations DPPA, and The Design Futures Initiative.

MENTORSHIP (09.20) 🇮🇳

Press release

MEDIUM ARTICLE (09.20) 🇸🇪

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ZINE FEATURE (08.20) 🖥️

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INTERVIEW (06.20) 🇮🇳

With Art and Charlie. Watch now.

TALK / WORKSHOP (06.20) 🇸🇪

Speculative Futures, Stockholm, Watch video

INTERVIEW IN SPANISH (05.20) 🇨🇴

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SCIENCE FICTION FILM (03.20) 🖥️

Watch now / read medium article

EXHIBITION (01.20) 🇮🇳

"Patlypatras", an alternate history piece, exhibited at the Indianama 2019 exhibition.

TALK (06.19) 🇸🇪

“Design, technology, speculation, and making”, listen now.

ACADEMIC PAPER BY ERIC HENG GU (12.18) 🖥️

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EXHIBITION (10.18) 🇬🇧

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MAGAZINE FEATURE (09.18) 🖥️

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NEWS ARTICLE (09.18) 🇬🇧

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EXHIBITION (09.18) 🇬🇧

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NEWS ARTICLE (06.18) 🇬🇧

“Inclusive, Tactile, Future Facing Innovations”

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EXHIBITION (06.18) 🇬🇧

See photos

SHORT STORY (05.18) 🇬🇧

Short sci-fi story written for and read at Virtual Futures’ post brain event.

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ONLINE FEATURE (06.17) 🖥️

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