Julian Bleecker

ThinkersDesigner and technologist

Works

  • Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction, 2009

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Known for

His essay made design fiction a working method: building objects, films, and documents from a possible future so people can handle and argue about that future before it exists. He founded the Near Future Laboratory. The term itself was coined by Bruce Sterling in 2005.

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