Julian Bleecker
Researcher, Designer, Engineer & Entrepreneur
Julian is synonymous with Near Future Laboratory, the platform he founded originally as a blog.
He is also often associated with the product company OMATA, which he founded in 2014 and sold in 2022. He is the author of Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction and It’s Time To Imagine Harder, and a co-author of The Manual of Design Fiction, the canonical reference for the eponymous practice that has evolved creative practices globally. In addition to his work as an entrepreneur, Julian is an active researcher with strong ties to academia, pedagogy and professional development. Julian has a Ph.D. in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz. He has an MSEng from the University of Washington and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
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