Stuart Candy: ‘The Unthinkable and the Unimaginable’

Dating back to November 2009, this talk by Stuart Candy resonates at an incredibly similar frequency to where my head is right now. Highly recommended.

So, not only am I attempting an essay that links Stuart’s examples of experiential futuring, the wunderkammer, and public sociology, but I’m also in the early stages of some kind of design fiction slash media futures thing with two other MA students from Goldsmiths – and it’s probably the most fired up I’ve been since the end of Superstruct. For more on both project and essay, watch this space.

Folding Plug H 264

Easily the smartest piece of industrial design I’ve seen from the post-Dyson/iPod era, with a folding mechanism that reminds me of those tiny plastic forks you get in excessively-packaged supermarket salads…

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge