https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco 2026-03-24T06:41:18+00:00 https://nearfuturelaboratory.com/newsletters/2026/w13-y26/ robertogreco “..[t]hese ambiguities, redundancies, and deficiencies recall those attributed by Dr. Franz Kuhn to a certain Chinese encyclopedia called the **_Heavenly Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge_**. In its distant pages it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the emperor; (b) embalmed ones; (c) those that are trained; (d) suckling pigs; (e) mermaids; (f) fabulous ones; (g) stray dogs; (h) those that are included in this classification; (i) those that tremble as if they were mad; (j) innumerable ones; (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's-hair brush; (l) etcetera; (m) those that have just broken the flower vase; (n) those that at a distance resemble flies.” That “shattering” evokes this sense of a breaking or a fracturing of a whole. The kind of unexpected interruption in one's **_sense of things_** that is so profound that one cannot help but laugh. What brought me to all of this (and thank you for reading to here) was upon the occasion of my trying to find a conclusion to a short commissioned book for a client who requested a reflection on what I had mentioned in passing: “Organizational Imagination” and how to build that capacity within a company. I wanted to find a way to talk about the value of speculation and speculative prototyping as a means to push at the walls of the box — the one we've been told for eons to “think outside of..” (I'll note that this is ultimately nearly impossible to do as no matter how far outside you get from the box, the culture/epistemology of the org is baked into those trying to get out their thinking outside of that box. Which is why these practices that are fully internalized never get outside the box. You need a hoolie or sledge in the form of someone whose DNA isn't already baked from the organizational culture.) The underlying thesis of this commissioned book is to make a compelling argument for why a speculative prototyping capability is a critical part of any meaningful innovation and product development capability. The book is meant to be a practical guide for how to build that capability within an organization, but I wanted to find a way to talk about the value of that work in a way that was more evocative than just describing the process and the outcomes. That shattering laughter? It matters to this point. It is not the laughter of dismissal — it is the laughter that comes when the categories one had relied upon fail all at once. When the ‘order of things' one had been born into and one has inherited, and was and always has been as natural as butter on toast and as common as the sense we say we all share commonly — when that suddenly reveals itself to be only one order among others and perhaps not even a particularly durable one..it's kinda funny to realize that the way we have been taught to classify and understand the world is just one of many ways to do so, and that it can be so easily disrupted by a different set of assumptions about how things are ordered and classified. That is the part I keep wondering into when working with clients to integrate an Organizational Imagination capability. Companies and institutions run on categories. They sort the world into markets, users, products, risks, forecasts, and strategic priorities. Those systems are useful until they become blinding. They keep the present intelligible, but they can also make an emerging possibility look awkward, unserious, or something to be riduclued, which is the opposite of what you want to do when you're trying to make sense of what's going on in some new emerging terrain. See, what Borges is doing here is fabricating a taxonomy so alien, so orthogonal to the way we coordinate and categorize things that one's sense-making apparatus — that weird vascularized piece of meat in our skulls — is forced to notice its own furniture. One suddenly becomes aware that order is made, not given. Categories are historical, contingent, local and what seems to belong together may only have been, at one point, taught to belong together sufficiently that it went from weird to unconsciously normal, ordinary, everyday knowledge. That curious “commone sense.” This has a lot to do, at least for me, with speculative prototyping. I have been trying, in one place or another, and in one register or another or another, to make the case that speculative prototypes matter because they do something more than illustrate a possibility or report on a trend. In the idiom we are working in right here, they disturb the taxonomies by which an organization knows what counts as serious, fundable, strategic, real, probable, worthwhile. They introduce into the room an object, a fragment from a field of possibilities, a demo, a scene from an adjacent space or near future, and by doing so they put a useful kind of pressure on the categories already in circulation. The effect of this is sometimes subtle, sometimes comic, sometimes disorienting. (I [tend](https://nearfuturelaboratory.com/library/2023/04/tbd-catalog-10th-anniversary-edition/) [towards](https://nearfuturelaboratory.com/library/2015/09/ikea-catalog-from-the-future/) [the comic](https://nearfuturelaboratory.com/library/2024/12/applied-intelligence-issue-001/), perhaps for the same reason Borges does.) But that subtlety is precisely the point. The artifact does not fit, and in not fitting, it reveals that we are only seeing very partially the possibilities and, conversely, we recognize the limited frame around which we peer into the world. The team doing the work is unhindered by this frame because they are told to see outside of it. This is their function, and their immense value. There is some pleasure in the abstraction of this philosophical argument for this function in a commercial context. But it is tangled up with a much more immediate concern, which is that I am trying to make this work legible as a role, a function, a job to be done and as necessary as any other vital function. I am trying to describe why an organization might need someone whose practice sits somewhere between prototyping and proposing, or that is able to fit an emerging trend inside of an artifact. A fabricated thing can produce a real epistemic effect — the “shattering” reframes a product thesis or shift market categories. A false encyclopedia can rearrange perception. In a similar way, a speculative prototype, if it is any good and done with expertise and experience, can do something similar inside an organization. It can make the familiar order flicker a bit — perhaps just a glitch — that reveals something not noticed before. It can make another ‘order of things' now suddenly appear for the chance to wonder about."]]> julianbleecker 2026 borges michelfoucault foucault speculativedesign ai artificialintelligence https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a035f4a79680/ 2025-09-24T19:19:08+00:00 https://nearfuturelaboratory.com/blog/2025/09/the-cautionary-tale-is-a-playbook/ robertogrecoscifi sciencefiction 2025 julianbleecker speculativedesign speculativefiction fiction starwars minorityreport https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:448e7f7af11e/ 2025-09-19T18:49:16+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__mhbuPvdZQ robertogreco transit transportation speculative speculativefiction annaleenewitz alissawalker vincentwoo alexismadrigal audreywilliams 2025 bayarea sanfrancisco bart scifi sciencefiction muni sfmta jeffreytumlin publictransit buses trains spikejonze her losangeles speculativedesign design mobility snowpiercer blackpanther wakanda hayaomiyazaki studioghibli catbus 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designfiction designfictiongroup sputniko!anthonydunne fionaraby dunne&raby newschool speculation daisyginsberg nerioxman anarajcevic medialab cooper-hewitt thenewschool ucsd cooperhewitt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1f586c41a296/ 2016-03-04T06:33:04+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbyIiX5mw_Y robertogreco ucsd speculativedesign art design benjaminbratton fionaraby teddycruz pedagogy california criticaldesign bauhaus materials donnaharaway speculation designfiction education https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0fab817ef19e/ 2016-02-23T09:45:57+00:00 http://crapfutures.tumblr.com/post/139786385254/counter-constraint-1-non-progress-dogma robertogreco crapfutures counter-constraints futures speculativedesign design 2016 technosolutionism technology progress progressdogma automation efficiency normanbelgeddes eames productification utopia dystopia resistance richardbarbrook processfatigue eldoctorow helenburgess interstatehighways cars history optimism sustainability boosterism adamcurtis thecenturyoftheself statusanxiety bladerunner pollution traffic futurama world'sfairs 1939 1964 ibm https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:89e6fd945038/ 2016-02-18T21:03:56+00:00 http://www.digitalmanifesto.net/manifestos/212/ robertogreco manifestos designfiction speculativefiction speculativedesign design sciencefiction scifi julianbleecker optimism making play playfulness prototyping tinkering criticalmaking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6d76ce6a2f80/ 2016-02-18T20:39:54+00:00 https://jentery.github.io/508/ robertogreco jenterysayers text prototyping digitalhumanities speculativedesign design english syllabus maryanncaws johannadrucker wjtmitchell jeffreyschnapp evekosofskysedgwick technosolutionism brucesterling fredmoten karenbarad jeromemcgann marksample bethanynowviskie fluxkits detournement poetry exquisitecorpses algorithms art composition rosamenkman anthonydunne fionaraby dunne&raby syllabi détournement https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0d42c2401347/ 2016-01-07T06:27:11+00:00 http://sd.ucsd.edu/ robertogreco speculativedesign sandiego ucsd https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9846274a89ac/ 2015-11-22T04:34:24+00:00 http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2015/11/28/Design-Futures-in-Sub-Saharan-Africa-Post-Western-Perspectives/ robertogreco designfuturism speculativedesign adrica via:anne designfiction africa 2015 cherpotter jonathanledgard ayorkorkorash kristinavandyke wesleykirinya paulacallus mugendim'rithaa elviraose davidpratten billsherman janeharris future speculativefiction design robotics gaming comuterimaging digital https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0bebf0a315a2/ 2015-08-16T05:40:20+00:00 http://cargocollective.com/selwa/Radical-Sensing robertogreco smell senses speculativedesign selwasweidan prosthetics neuroprosthetics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f195377dce15/ 2015-08-15T21:09:02+00:00 http://ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=757 robertogreco alexandergalloway garnethertz speculativedesign criticaldesign communism motivation capitalism economics makers making makermovement 2015 anthonydunne fionaraby dunne&raby christopheralexander geertlovink matthewfuller tizianaterranova criticalartensemble mckenziewark guydebord digitalculture diy culture richardsennett matthewcrawford markfrauenfelder phenomenology karlmarx kant immanuelkant deleuze gillesdeleuze https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:94861cdffcb5/ 2015-07-02T00:18:46+00:00 http://www.disegnodaily.com/article/tomorrow-today-design-fiction-and-social-responsibility robertogreco anthonydunne fionaraby 2015 speculativefiction speculativedesign designfiction design criticaldesign future paulgrahamraven daisyginsberg liamyoung onkarkular johnthackara susanyelavich paolaantonelli catharinerossi portiaungley alexandradaisyginsberg via:anne dunne&raby https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d01ff44ef093/ 2015-06-12T07:04:14+00:00 http://morethanhumanlab.tumblr.com/post/121308092025/on-anthropology-not-ethnography-and-design robertogreco timingold design designanthropology ethnography anthropology listening criticalinquiry inquiry speculativedesign experimentation observation holism criticaldesign open-ended unfinished comparison via:anne openended https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:505940f16ead/ 2015-05-22T06:05:28+00:00 http://www.cd-cf.org/articles/critical-design-and-the-critical-social-sciences/ robertogreco damianwhite 2015 design speculativedesign speculativefiction designfiction futures future futurism socialsciences colinward deloreshayden herbertsimon criticaldesign designcriticism kimstanleyrobinson ursulaleguin hayaomiyazaki achigram ronherron utopia utopianism capitalism communism socialism anarchism feminism sociology politics policy maxweber patrickgeddes designfuturism anthonydunne fionaraby dunne&raby tonyfry erikolinwright émiledurkheim ursulakleguin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e90232ebfa50/ 2015-05-21T06:29:10+00:00 http://www.cd-cf.org/ robertogrecocriticaldesign design criticism designcriticism speculativedesign designfiction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7e8b272b43e8/ 2015-05-19T06:11:36+00:00 http://www.flagofplanetearth.com/ robertogrecoflags earth design speculativedesign https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:46946e5c24bd/ 2015-03-28T06:36:33+00:00 https://vimeo.com/99370137 robertogreco lisama invasivespecies animals multispecies geese human-animalrelationships human-animalrelations belgium gent diversity vegetarianism vegetarians birds food diet activism speculativedesign farmification bioluddism squirrels https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:457aa493b3e4/ 2015-02-08T02:36:31+00:00 https://vimeo.com/112105187 robertogreco anabjain superflux 2014 design future futures via:steelemaley criticaldesign speculativedesign speculativefiction designfiction designdiscourse film filmmaking technology interaction documentary uncertainty reality complexity algorithms data society surveillance cloud edwardsnowden chelseamanning julianassange whistleblowing science bentobox genecoin bitcoin cryptocurrency internet online jugaad war warfare information politics drones software adamcurtis isolation anxiety capitalism quantification williamgibson art prototyping present cryptocurrencies crypto blockchain https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7e33f82b3e6a/ 2015-01-26T22:30:09+00:00 http://www.nicolasnova.net/pasta-and-vinegar/2015/1/26/new-book-on-design-ethnography robertogreco"What do designers mean when they say they’re going to do “ethnography” and “field research”? What are the relationships between observing people and designing products or services? Is there such a thing as a “designerly” way of knowing people? This book is a report from a research project conducted at HEAD – Genève that addressed the role of people-knowing in interaction/media design. It describes the wide breadth of approaches used by designers to frame their work, get inspiration or speculate about plausible futures. This book presents practitioners’ tactics and illustrates them with several cases. Unlike many resources on user-centered design, it takes a broader approach to design by considering cases in which design is not only a problem-solving activity, but a tool to speculate about the near future, reformulate problems or propose a critical discourse on society. In doing so, this book helps designers, students and consultants to challenge their own perceptions and update their approaches." The book is a collective effort, with texts from John Thackara, Julian Bleecker, Sara Ljungblad, Gilles Baudet, Anab Jain and Jon Ardern, James Auger, Virginia Cruz and Nicolas Gaudron, Liam Young, Fabian Hemmert, Steve Portigal, Gordan Savičić and Selena Savić, Anne-Catherine Sutermeister and Jean-Pierre Greff.  It can be purchased online here at we-make.it [http://we-make.it/shop/ and http://wemakeitberlin.tictail.com/product/design-ethnography ]"]]> design ethnography designethnography nicolasnova johnthackara julianbleecker saraljungblad gillesbaudet anabjain jonardern superflux jamesauger virginiacruz nicolasgaudron liamyoung fabianhemmert steveportigal books gordansavičić selensavić anne-catherinesutermeister jean-pierregreff futurism speculativedesign disign nearfuture fieldresearch research observation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3a68d5a52b67/ 2015-01-08T05:43:14+00:00 https://twitter.com/JosieHolford/status/553014669611630592 robertogreco josieholford designthinking utopia speculativefiction speculativedesign future futures 2015 howwethink education learning schools design thinking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:03e5f8058850/ 2014-11-24T09:11:39+00:00 http://www.parsonscharlesworth.com/NEW-SURVIVALISM-Alternative-Bug-Out-Bags robertogreco 2014 timparsons jessicacharlesworth speculativefiction designfiction speculativedesign survivalism future https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9d58d42d35bb/ 2014-11-02T02:55:37+00:00 http://mediadesignpractices.net/ robertogreco accd artcenter design education media webdev designeducation altgdp speculativedesign designmatters ethics crticaldesign anneburdick inquiry lcproject openstudioproject interdisciplinary transdisciplinary webdesign https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a71f12ce9343/ 2014-10-15T00:06:32+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF6WRXtKMSQ robertogreco 2013 paulgrahamraven infrastructure designfiction speculativedesign speculativefiction criticaltheory https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dc9589c95a80/ 2014-09-25T18:37:37+00:00 http://www.z33.be/en/projects/future-fictions robertogreco speculativefiction speculativedesign future designfiction annegalloay 2014 karenverschooren https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9526874aa901/ 2014-09-21T01:55:30+00:00 http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/feature/novel-and-future-near-future robertogreco ryanbigge designfiction speculativefiction speculativedesign blackmirror 2014 brucesterling charliebrooker https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:707a59b787e3/ 2014-09-20T20:39:56+00:00 http://extrapolationfactory.com/ robertogreco hriswoebken elliottmontgomery extrapolationfactory designfiction design futures future speculativedesign speculativefiction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:95ae832ec975/ 2014-09-16T19:51:38+00:00 https://medium.com/@pedroliveira_/cheat-sheet-for-a-non-or-less-colonialist-speculative-design-9a6b4ae3c465 robertogreco speculativedesign criticaldesign luizaprado pedrooliveira 2014 colonialism designcolonialism imperialism dunne&raby designfiction speculativefiction fionaraby https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:289fedced49f/ 2014-08-22T05:32:11+00:00 https://www.academia.edu/7710031/DRAFT_-_How_We_Future_-_Review_of_Dunne_and_Raby_Speculative_Everything_ robertogrecocamerontonkinwise speculativefiction designfiction fionaraby anthonydunne crticism 2014 dunne&raby speculativedesign https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:99c44b1774d1/ 2014-07-10T02:16:48+00:00 http://a-pare.de/ robertogreco luizaprado pedrooliveira criticaldesign speculativedesign designresearch gender sound berlin brazil brasil aparede designfiction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8d1d4fd2001e/ 2014-06-22T06:28:43+00:00 https://medium.com/@prbeckman/reflections-on-the-utility-of-the-poetic-imagination-3d4cd9480fd6 robertogreco designfiction speculativedesign criticaldesign speculativefiction 2014 prbeckman process imagination creativity prototyping sciencefictionprototyping https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a52c08359d52/ 2014-06-22T06:27:02+00:00 https://medium.com/designing-the-future robertogreco designfiction criticaldesign speculativefiction speculativedesign https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ce5beca18bb2/ 2014-06-17T23:33:24+00:00 http://ablersite.org/2014/06/16/studio-lab-workshop/ robertogreco sarahendren 2014 olincollege design specialization specialists generalists interdisciplinary transdisciplinary engineering stem davidgray research academia extra-disciplinary ability dependence audiencesofone jackmiles anthonydunne fionaraby dunne&raby ablerism events nataliejeremijenko tombieling kateharman prosthetics abilities disability designcriticism criticaldesign speculativedesign humility crossdisciplinary crosspollination accessibility assistivetechnology discourse conversation openstudioproject lcproject howwelearn howweteach disabilities dependency https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:52427304785c/ 2014-06-09T22:12:30+00:00 http://www.superflux.in/blog/failed-states robertogreco superflux anabjain failedstates speculativefiction speculativedesign designfiction speculativecriticaldesign criticaldesign justinpickard immigration migration future government switzerland design complexity uncertainty prediction 2014 surveillance networks danielschiboz nicolasnova marionschmidt https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8466939a5d71/ 2014-06-03T19:55:38+00:00 http://www.drs2014.org/en/presentations/350/ robertogreco luizaprado speculativefiction designfiction criticaldesign speculativedesign design 2014 privilege oppression gender technology culture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:83de2aa71d35/ 2014-05-13T18:38:26+00:00 http://disegnodaily.com/features/alexandra-daisy-ginsberg-and-the-problem-of-design-fictions robertogreco designfiction speculativedesign alexandradaisyginsberg biology 2014 biotechnology via:anne anthonydunne daisyginsberg dunne&raby fionaraby https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9e82ce243539/ 2014-05-13T00:16:04+00:00 https://twitter.com/annegalloway/status/465644738255659008 robertogreco speculativedesign criticaldesign designfiction annegalloway 2014 design https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e913521eb10b/ 2014-03-26T03:27:22+00:00 http://blog.ted.com/2014/03/21/instead-of-futurists-lets-be-now-ists-joi-ito-at-ted2014/ robertogreco connectedlearning fabrication making joiito 2014 education learning unschooling deschooling justintime openstudioproject lcproject hardware software demos demoing now-ists futurists future speculativedesign glvo teams bottomup chaos 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