Writing
Books, essays, primers, and current manuscript work.
Writing is where the method often gets named, clarified, and sharpened before it turns into artifacts, prototypes, workshops, and organizational structures.
For hiring leaders, this is also part of the proof. The writing shows long-form judgment, authorship, and the ability to turn a complex practice into something other people can learn from, align around, and apply.
Organizational Imagination / Speculative Prototyping
An in-progress book making the case for speculative prototyping as something teams can actually use rather than something that only shows up in occasional workshops.
Shows the current direction of the work and frames it in terms of how leaders and teams actually work, not just method.
The Manual of Design Fiction
A practical and canonical reference for design fiction and the use of artifacts to render futures tangible.
This book canonizes a practice I developed and evolved, starting as a premise in a short essay into a fully-fledged practice captured in this book. A demonstration of long-form authority in a field I helped define.
It’s Time To Imagine Harder
A concise statement of the imaginative and strategic posture that runs through the broader body of work.
Reinforces the strategic posture and cultural point of view behind the project work.
Near Future Laboratory
The broader Near Future Laboratory archive includes essays, primers, and project work spanning more than 20 years of work at the intersection of design, technology, and culture.
This is the wider context around methods, practices, reflections, and insights inspired, motivated and sometimes confounded me. It is an always expanding resource that shows the depth and breadth of the work, and the long-term commitment to my various points of view and ways of working.