Future Feelings: Conversation with Julian Bleecker

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“This is not a zero sum game. This is a game where we need to bring creativity and imagination back into the conversation about how we remake and build the kinds of worlds that we want to inhabit.”

—Julian Bleecker

Episode 06 welcomes thought-leader, product innovator, and futures designer Julian Bleecker, who is also the founder of Omata and Near Future Laboratory. He talks to host Radha Mistry about rediscovering and cultivating our childhood imagination, finding the harmony between creativity and structure, and joy as a metric of success.

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Nicolas Nova was an early and consistent participant in Julian's Near Future Laboratory's research and design studio. He recently passed while doing what he loved — trekking, exploring, observing in curious and out of the way places. The entire design community has lost a gentle and thoughtful collaborator, teacher, mentor, instigator, interlocutor. His curiosity was infectious and his work was always inspired, thoughtful, full of wit, and provocative. We dedicate this episode to his memory and the good work that will continue in his name.

Future Feelings is brought to you by Deem Audio. Production by Amy Mae Garrett. Editorial by Isabel Flower. Creative direction by Nu Goteh. Cover art by Jun Lin. Sound mixing and editing by Hasan Insane. Theme music by Nu Goteh. A special thank you to our host, Radha Mistry.