🔮 Designing democracy; Amazon’s facial recognition; deep memes & fake ads++ #176

Hello everyone,

Once in a while I like to bring an alternative voice in Exponential View and this week, while I take a short family break, I’ve asked Anab Jain (@anabjain), co-founder of Superflux, a London-based studio, to step up. I first met Anab through my dear friend, Marko Ahtisaari (who co-curates the Exponential View Spotify playlist and just released a music video with his band Construction) and have followed her interdisciplinary work at the intersection of foresight, technology and speculative design with interest over the past decade.

Enjoy her Exponential View,
Azeem

About Anab

Hello! I am the Co-Founder and Director of the foresight and design studio Superflux, and Professor of Design Investigations at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

Together with designer and technologist Jon Ardern, I create tangible and provocative experiences that transport people directly into possible future worlds. Doing this work has led us to discover a powerful means of affecting change: by c…