The Importance of Imagination in Design Fiction

Mathieu Aguesse is a French entrepreneur, dedicated to innovation and education on impact-driven topics. He successfully launched the first open innovation class dedicated to solving plastic pollution, a program called Deplastify the Planet. At Haas, he is now running a class at called Equitable Design, which leverages the power of design to solve challenges related to diversity, equity and inclusion. He recently co-authored an article on Design Fiction in the Harvard Business Review. Oh, by the way – we wrote a manual of design fiction called, conveniently, The Manual of Design Fiction! You can pre-order it now (shipping early November!) over at http://themanualofdesignfiction.com Please consider supporting the podcast over on http://patreon.com/nearfuturelaboratory — you support comes with access to the Near Future Laboratory Discord, our experiment in hypercollaboration. You won't want to miss all of that.