Jun 25, 2019
From prototyping futures to
designing artifacts solely for discussion, tune in to explore the
idiosyncratic—but important—field of speculative design. In this
episode, host Travis Neilson sits down with Philip Battin and
Curtis Flanagan from Seed Studio, a Google design team working on
future-forward creative concepts for human-centered technology. In
this intriguing
conversation, the trio
unpack what it means to rehearse the future to inform the
present.
Handy links for this
episode:
Explore
“A Space for Being”
from Salone del Mobile in Milan
2019
Read
Speculative Everything: Design,
Fiction, and Social Dreaming by Anthony Dunne and Fiona
Raby
Watch
HER on Google Play
Meet our guests:
Philip Battin currently leads strategic design and innovation
for Seed Studio. Previously he worked as a design strategist on
Google Glass at Google X.
Curtis
Flanagan is an art director at Seed Studio. Before joining
Google, he was a senior designer at Red Antler and Ideas On
Purpose.