"Negotiating Futures - Design Fiction" is the theme for the 6th Swiss Design Network Conference, taking place in Basel, Switzerland at the end of October. Sounds good, especially after the design-fictiony contributions to Core77 by Significant Objects, Matt Brown and Ben Fullerton.
It doesn't only sound good; the roster of speakers is impressive, with James Auger of the RCA and Julian Bleecker of the Near Future Laboratory heading up the list. If you're a designer working with fiction-as-research you still have a chance to get involved; they've extended the workshop proposal deadline to August 15th.
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