We had our 3rd 'Get the SWAG on' with Nicolas Nova, a design researcher talking about potential futures! Join us for the next meetups — http://www.meetup.com/Get-the-SWAG-on/ Nicolas Nova is a design researcher, ethnographer and co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory. His work is about identifying weak signals as well as exploring people’s needs, motivations and contexts to map new design opportunities and chart potential futures. Nicolas has given talks and exhibited his work on the intersections of design, technology and the near-future in venues such SXSW, AAAS, O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and the design week in Milano, the Institute for the Future, the the MIT Medialab. He holds a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne and has been a visiting researcher at the Art Center School of Design (Pasadena). He is also Professor at the Geneva University of Arts and Design (HEAD–Genève) and curator for Lift Conference, a series of international events about digital culture and innovation.

1. THE FAMILY
DESIGN FICTIONS
NICOLAS NOVA, 06.11.2013, PARIS
WWW.NEARFUTURELABORATORY.COM

2. I’m nicolas

4. We explore futures, chart
the unexpected and
transform opportunities into
new and tangible forms.

6. Design/post-it/sharpie

7. Design thinking

8. Design & 3D printing

9. 2001, A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)

10. They Live (John Carpenter)

11. Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)

15. Design Fiction
Audio tooth (Auger-Loizeau)

16. Audio tooth (Auger-Loizeau)

17. Audio tooth (Auger-Loizeau)

19. “CORNER CONVENIENCE”
Based on the hypothesis
that all great innovations
and inventions find their
way into the Corner
Convenience store

20. “CORNER CONVENIENCE”

21. “CORNER CONVENIENCE”

22. “CORNER CONVENIENCE”

23. “CORNER CONVENIENCE”

24. “CORNER CONVENIENCE”

25. “CORNER CONVENIENCE”

26. “CURIOUS RITUALS”

27. “CURIOUS RITUALS”

28. “CURIOUS RITUALS”

29. “CURIOUS RITUALS”

30. “CURIOUS RITUALS”

31. “CURIOUS RITUALS”

32. GREEN PAGES
PROJECT IV: GREEN PAGES

33. GREEN PAGES
PROJECT IV: GREEN PAGES

34. CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST
This is all good and nice but isn’t
this a bit remote from the daily
business of design/innovation?
What does it mean for our
clients?

35. CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST
Possible
Potential
Now
Preferable
Probable
Cones of uncertainties are diagrams that identify possible changes (surfaced during
field research): peculiar usage of technologies, awkward hack, etc.
Source: Paul Saffo, Stuart Candy, Anthony Dunne

36. COHERENCE INSTRUMENTS: GENEALOGY TREES

37. WHAT SCIFI IS/WHAT DESIGN FICTION BRING TO THE TABLE

38. GENERATIVE TOOLS

39. GENERATIVE TOOLS

40. THANK YOU MERCI GRACIAS DANKE GRAZIE
NICOLAS NOVA
nicolas@nearfuturelaboratory.com
www.nearfuturelaboratory.com