A short sci-fi story about an authoritarian artificial intelligence, and the future of our planet. Written by Viraj Joshi in Spring 2023. Presented at Design.Resilience Panel by Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (June 2023), to be published in print within the collection EcoFascism (2024).

With Eliza — The Ghost in Every Machine — In the recent past, we’ve seen generative AI produce text, images, digital interface screens, young likenesses of aging actors, and more. These AI tools have become widely accessible leading to a host of possibilities, and also unintended consequences that we haven’t fathomed yet. When generative AI programmes can ‘create’ everything…

Using science fiction and futures to inform design decisions for the ‘metaverse’. — I have spent the last year writing and drawing Eliza — The Ghost in Every Machine, a weekly cartoon about a machine consciousness trying to understand our world, as it finds itself in increasingly prominent places every day. …

Whilst I see myself as a practitioner and doer; my futures projects have resulted in a series of pedagogical outputs like frameworks and thought processes. …

Trends forecasting, world-building, and artefact creation conducted live at the Primer21 conference as a part of Postcards from the Future —

From “Postcards from the Future Live” event by Viraj Joshi, at Speculative Futures Rotterdam. The Event Speculative Futures Rotterdam, a part of the global Design Futures Initiative, kindly invited me to host a live session featuring my project “Postcards from the Future” on January 12th, 2021. With the chapter host, Karolina Thakker…

Hidden in Nintendo’s utterly charming digital diorama are great decisions around humanising data! — Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Nintendo’s life-simulator game places the player’s avatar on a remote deserted island.

A case for dreaming alternate realities with design — We live in a world full of complex, shapeless technology, that has far-reaching effects on our daily lives. Artificial intelligence and digital assistants have found their way to phones, speakers and even bits of our houses. …