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N°052 - Speculative Futures as a Design Approach with Johanna Hoffman

Near Future Laboratory Podcast

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The Dichotomy Between Imagination and Practicality in Engineering

"Cities are fundamentally part of the natural world. We might, you know, like beavers be really intense engineers, but we still make stuff that comes from this planet," she says. "If we can explore what infrastructure becomes after its original purpose, no longer makes sense, we can start to create more adaptive spaces." The use of our imaginations in making spaces work is never really over, he adds.

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