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Permission to Muck About @ Detroit Imagines Harder

Taking part in a Design Fiction Summit on the Future of Work
Dr Joseph Lindley
Dr Joseph Lindley
Permission to Muck About @ Detroit Imagines Harder

When my friend Julian Bleecker found out I was travelling to the United States this week to go to Half Way to the Future, he suggested I drop in on Detroit Imagines Harder, a Design Fiction Summit on the Future of work. We decided I could use a lunch break to show some of Permission to Muck About and discuss it with the attendees.

It was a real treat to share the film with a super engaged and very different crowd to what I had done before.

Julian has given the whole thing a really insightful photographic writeup, so, go check it out.

Thanks for having me!

The top floor of the old railway station A hat making machine The venue, the Jam Handy Organisation
Some photos from Detroit Imagines Harder
Dr Joseph Lindley
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Dr Joseph Lindley

Joe leads Design Research Works and is a Senior Research Fellow at Lancaster University. He is passionate about the value of Design Research, in particular in applying that value to the challenges associated with emerging technologies, rapid societal change, and living sustainably. Probably best described as a 'generalist' his research practice usually involves material engagements with possible futures.

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