Near Future Laboratory Podcast

Julian Bleecker

Booking Overview

This is a niche interview podcast focused on design, technology, futures, speculative practice, and culture, featuring designers, writers, educators, artists, and researchers with substantive work in those fields. Agencies could credibly pitch design leaders, futurists, technology-and-culture thinkers, speculative designers, and authors with distinctive ideas about emerging technologies or everyday life; booking difficulty is medium because the show favors established specialists but draws on a focused professional network.

Metrics

Episodes: 113

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 1.2k subscribers

Instagram: 6.3k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Julian Bleecker - Julian Bleecker is a designer and futurist and the founder of the Near Future Laboratory, a practice focused on exploring possible futures through design, technology, and cultural research.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Established designers, futurists, writers, educators, artists, researchers, and technology or culture practitioners with original work and a clear perspective on emerging futures, speculative practice, or the human impact of technology.
Required Achievements:  
Published books or substantial written work, Recognized design, artistic, educational, or research practice, Creation of speculative tools, frameworks, or cultural projects, Leadership in service design, innovation, technology, or futures work

Recent Guest Discussions

Ian Bogost - Everyday Sensory Experience, Technology’s Effect On Embodied Life, Curiosity, Imagination, Gratification, And The Relationship Between Convenience And Material Experience.

Sarah Rothberg - Speculative Worldbuilding, Participatory Futures, Creative Constraints, AI Ethics, Material Responsibility, And Imagining Alternative Social Worlds.

Marina Zurkow - Speculative Worldbuilding, Constraints As Creative Tools, Abolitionist Futures, AI Ethics, Material Responsibility, And Imagining Desirable Futures.

Andy Polaine - The Relationship Between Structure And Imagination, Service Design, Innovation, Education, And Creative Practice.

Recent Topics

Speculative Design, Futures, Design, Technology

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Near Future Laboratory Podcast
:

N°105 - Small Stuff with Ian Bogost

July 07, 2026

In this episode of the Near Future Laboratory Podcast, I talk with my old friend Ian Bogost about his new book, “The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life” — a funny (like..I laughed out loud) , generous, and quietly radical invitation to recover the sensory enchantment of everyday life.Ian’s book begins with ordinary things: stick shifts, toasters, paper cups, plastic film, doorknobs, faucets, pre-ordering shirts, Diet Coke cans, plunger force cups when they are missing their handl...

N°104 - Marina Zurkow & Sarah Rothberg

June 25, 2026

The podcast is back from hiatus with a fun one!Episode 104 is a conversation with Sarah Rothberg and my dear old friend and collaborator Marina Zurkow about More&More, their speculative card-deck and worldbuilding framework for making strange, useful futures with other people.We talk about why constraints are better than blank canvases, how a handful of absurd cards can quickly open up a whole social world, and why the point is not to invent dystopias but to imagine worlds you might actua...

N°062 - Structure vs. Imagination with Andy Polaine

March 11, 2026

Andy Polaine is a designer, educator, writer and podcast guy. He hosts the wonderful 'Power of Ten' podcast. Andy is known for his work as a service designer, innovation consultant and professional executive coach.Don't forget — please support the podcast and all the things over at https://patreon.com/nearfuturelaboratory. Your support would be very much appreciated.Oh, also? Please rate and write a review of the podcast over on Apple Podcasts. That stuff really does help!Thank you!Julian

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