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Nick Foster

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@fosta
About

Nick Foster ​is and industrial designer, futurist​, film-maker and writer. He graduated from the Royal College of ​A​r​t​ in 2001 ​and worked for companies including Sony, Seymourpowell and Nokia. In​ 2012 ​he moved to California ​to take a role as ​creative lead for Nokia’s Advanced Design ​studio​. ​He currently ​w​orks​ with a brilliant team in Mountain View​ to help define the next generation of Google products.​ Nick is also a partner at the Near Future Laboratory, developing projects in the field of ​design fiction, speculative and critical futures.

Listen to the podcast episode with Nick Foster.

The Future Mundane

Design projects fall into three distinct categories: now, next and future. For near-term projects the design industry has developed and refined a variety of processes, but when approaching ideas for the future, things begin to fall apart. Designers are left to wander aimlessly between science fiction cinema, futurist literature and technology digests, and it’s clear from their output that something is amiss. Current sources of inspiration have their uses, but they often pull the designer in unhelpful directions, blinding them to the realities of a world to come. The future will include spacecraft, artificial skin and self-driving vehicles, but it will also include garbage, staplers and milk. It will be, in a very real sense, mundane. You will not be a hero. You will inherit furniture. Your morning will be spoiled when your toaster fails to sync with your bread app…

Nick will introduce an approach which looks at the role of the mundane in building a view of the future, and how experimenting with format and delivery we can make the future more tangible and achievable. It’s more fun than it sounds.

Join these men and women in their
vision of the future

See our
fantastic lineup!

Registration
Opening Remarks
Brian David Johnson Designing the Future…and Building It…with Science Fiction!
Matt Novak A Brief History of Tomorrow
Break
John Willshire Metadesign For Murph
Josh Clark Magical UX and the Internet of Things
Chris Noessel Gorgeous Catastrophic
Lunch
Nick Foster The Future Mundane
Carla Diana Designing the Future Through Tangible Storytelling
Ingrid Burrington Come With Me If You Want To Live, or How To Survive A Time Travel Paradox
Break
Dan Hill The City of Things
Mark Stevenson Up for Grabs
Closing Remarks
After Party

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Located in the all new Brighton Space Dome, 2,000 miles above the city of Brighton and Hove. Please make your way to the Brighton Dome Space Port, for your complimentary low earth orbit shuttle service.

Accommodation

Looking for somewhere to stay while in this friendly, futuristic city? Check out the Brighton page on AirBnB for local dwellings.

There are plenty of hotels too: Ibis, MyHotel, Artist Residence, Jury’s Inn, and Fhloston Paradise to name just a few.

To eat

For traditional earthly sustenance, you could beam yourself to the weekly Street Diner food market. There are also lots of ground-level restaurants and cafés nearby, where you can grab a bite during the lunch break (the lunch break lasts for an hour and a half so you’ll have plenty of time).

For liquid refreshment, the popular fuel known as ‘coffee’ is available from purveyors such as the Small Batch Coffee Company (on New Road, very close to the Brighton Dome Space Port).

  • Burgers and Cocktails
    15 North Road
    Brighton BN1 1YA
    (on Sept 11th, show your dConstruct pass & get 20% off food orders)*
  • Coho
    83a Queens Road
    Brighton BN1 3XE
     
    53 Ship Street
    Brighton BN1 1AF
    (on Sept 11th, show your dConstruct pass & get 10% off everything)*
  • Gourmet Burger Kitchen
    44–47 Gardner Street
    Brighton BN1 1UN
    (on Sept 11th, show your dConstruct pass & get 15% off food orders)*
  • Kooks
    56 Gardner Street
    Brighton BN1 1UN
    (on Sept 11th, show your dConstruct pass & get 20% off entire bill)*
  • Taylor St Baristas
    28 Queens Road
    Brighton BN1 3XA
    (on Sept 11th, show your dConstruct pass & get 20% off all hot drinks)*
  • Strada
    160–161 North Street
    Brighton BN1 1EZ
    (on Sept 11th, show your dConstruct pass & get 20% off food bill​)*
  • Las Iguanas
    7–8 Jubilee Street
    Brighton BN1 1GE
    (on Sept 11th, show your dConstruct pass & get 20% off food bill)*
  • Pizza Express
    A3 Block, Jubilee Street
    Brighton BN1 1GE
    (on Sept 11th, show your dConstruct pass & get 20% off food bill)*
  • E-kagen
    22–23 Sydney Street
    Brighton BN1 4EN
*Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer

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Clearleft is a user experience design consultancy based in Brighton, UK. We design delightful digital experiences.