{"id":1487,"date":"2022-01-06T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2022-01-06T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T14:41:08","slug":"near-future-laboratory-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toshareproject.it\/artmakerblog\/near-future-laboratory-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Near Future Laboratory in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/design-fictions\/2021-a-year-in-a-list-15a789cdb109\">https:\/\/medium.com\/design-fictions\/2021-a-year-in-a-list-15a789cdb109<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FROM: The Near Future Laboratory<br \/>\nSUBJECT: 2021 \u2014 A Year In A List<\/p>\n<p>The Near Future Laboratory isn\u2019t a \u2018normal\u2019 organization by any means \u2014 we\u2019re a distributed network of accomplished practitioners based in five different cities in California, Mexico, Switzerland and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>We each have our own personal interests but come together through projects inspired by our curiosities, experiences, and expertise in design, engineering, anthropology and futures. It\u2019s been an interesting year to say the least \u2014 we\u2019ve collectively experienced rapid changes in society, culture and technology, alongside changes in our personal and work lives. As we look forward to 2022, here\u2019s a bulleted list of what we got up to over the last twelve months.We wish you all a happy, healthy, and productively creative new year!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Fabien, Isra, Julian, Nick and Nicolas<\/p>\n<p>January<\/p>\n<p>Julian launches the Near Future Laboratory podcast with a pilot featuring Fabien and Nicolas exploring what it means to be a generalist. The archive now comprises 22 episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas releases his new book co-edited with Disnovation \u201cA Bestiary of the Anthropocene: On Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Design Fiction Newsletter is launched.<\/p>\n<p>Fabien releases a new version of pr\u00f3ximo, an \u200b\u200bonline text editor with a \u2018Map it\u2019 button.<\/p>\n<p>February<\/p>\n<p>Julian produces a piece of Design Fiction for his company OMATA \u2014 perhaps the world\u2019s first Corporate Annual Report from the Future.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas presents a Design Fiction 101 workshop at Politecnico in Milan (Italy).<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas starts a six-month visiting professorship at the Department of Sociology at the University of Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>Fabien starts his \u201ctravel around the near future in 50 maps\u201d atlas project.<br \/>\nMarch<\/p>\n<p>The Near Future Laboratory Discord is launched (which now has over 500 members)<br \/>\nNicolas presents a short futures research project for the city of Lyon (France) about digital sovereignty&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/medium.com\/design-fictions\/2021-a-year-in-a-list-15a789cdb109 FROM: The Near Future Laboratory SUBJECT: 2021 \u2014 A Year In A List The Near Future Laboratory isn\u2019t a \u2018normal\u2019 organization by any means \u2014 we\u2019re a distributed network of accomplished practitioners based in five different cities in California, Mexico, Switzerland and Spain. 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