A man wearing glasses and a jacket, standing outdoors on a city street, with tall modern buildings in the background.

Viraj Joshi is a designer, technologist, and futurist.

His design / fiction practice investigates optimistic, pluralistic, more human, and more-than-human futures in a world that favours narrow, uniform, and mechanistic visions of tomorrow.

Service and Experience Designer
Design Futures Practice Lead
Fjord (Now Accenture Song)

Visiting Tutor - Speculative and HMI Design
Royal College of Art, Imperial College, London

Cartoonist - Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine➚

He has received several international accolades including work shown at the Science Museum London, United Nations DPPA, London Design Festival, and Milan Design Week.

He is based in London.

Say hello by E-mail➚

Selected Media

The Future Prompt at Milan Design Week

04.2023

Design.Resilience at Helen Hamlyn Centre

06.2023

Broadcast from Later

03.2023

Non-Human Centred AI at Future Based Podcast

12.2021

Latest

  • Life Trends 2025 Social Media Campaign

    SOCIAL CAMPAIGN (07.25) 🌐

    I appear on the Accenture Life Trends 2025 social media campaign, to speak about ‘Social Rewilding’ in the age of digital maximalism.

  • A vibrant countryside scene with a wooden balcony adorned with blooming flowers and a woman holding a cup. Floating above are cartoonish whale-shaped airships. In the background, rolling fields of green, yellow, and purple with a city skyline and several more whale-shaped airships in the sky. A bicycle leans against a tree on the right side.

    Experimental Realism 2025, Session 2: Imagining Solarpunk Futures

    DISCUSSION (04.05) 🌐

    Ran a a session on Solarpunk imaginaries, and how we might bring them to life with Experimental Realism, featuring design and fiction examples.

    Read my account along with several references that were brought up on futurebabble.blog: https://lnkd.in/e-9FEbfQ

  • Photo of a man speaking to an audience at an outdoor event with people sitting at tables. A rainbow in the background. Overlaid text in black on a light green background reads ‘fictions, futures, foresight,’ with a list of names on the black section to the right. A blue shape in the bottom left corner has the text ‘Viraj Joshi — #ExReEncounters’.

    Experimental Realism 2025, Session 1: Do our futures seem more narrow than ever?

    DISCUSSION (02.25) 🌐

    I return to Experimental Realism’s 2025 season as a mentor / host of 3 discussion sessions on Speculative Design.

  • Promotional graphic for a design event featuring Viraj Joshi, a designer and technologist, scheduled for February 5, 2025, at 10 AM on Zoom, with a colorful background, a black and white photo of Viraj Joshi, and text about the event at UC Berkeley's Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.

    FutureBabble @ UC Berkeley

    GUEST LECTURE (02.25) 🇺🇸

    Took the latest iteration of my FutureBabble talk to UC Berkeley’s MDes programme called in their ‘Field Notes’ series.

  • Animated promotional poster for the Eliza concert and comic fair event, featuring cartoon characters, a poster of Eliza, and text about free entry and event details.

    Eliza @ Winchester Comics Fair

    COMIC CONVENTION (10.24)

    Eliza in Misinformation Malarkey was available at Winchester Comics Fair.

    Read More

  • Two individuals stand in front of a large, ornately carved wooden doorway. The man on the left has dark hair, glasses, and a beard, and is wearing a black shirt and pants. The woman on the right has blonde hair in a ponytail and is dressed in a black coat and pants with yellow boots. The doorway features intricate woodwork and decorative motifs, including a lion head and crest at the top.

    Living in the Age of Green Dictatorship

    CLIMATE FUTURES WORKSHOP (10.24)

    A yearly Speculative Design Workshop for Innovation Design Engineering that put students in an extreme climate context to create radical solutions for a better planet.

    Co-created with Audrey Gaulard.
    More details.

  • FutureBabble @ IDE

    DESIGN TALK (10.24)

    My Speculative Design 101 talk was presented to:

    1
    The Royal College of Art and Imperial College London’s IDE (Innovation Design Engineering) course.

    2
    Imperial College’s Design Engineering Undergrads

  • Eliza @ PageMasters Zine Fair

    BOOK CONVENTION (09.24)

    Eliza in Misinformation Malarkey was at the communal table of @pagemasters.co fair at the @southlondongallery in Peckham.

  • Eliza @ Jam Bookshop

    BOOK STORE (08.24) 🇬🇧

    Now available at @jambookshopuk !

    Visit this wonderful independent book store at
    281 Portobello Road
    Portobello Green
    London W10 5TZ

  • People inside an art gallery or museum, with framed artworks on the wall and colorful cartoon character illustrations on the ceiling.

    Eliza @ The Cartoon Museum's Small Press Day

    COMIC CONVENTION (08.24) 🇬🇧

    Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine at Small Press Day 2024's edition at The Cartoon Museum.

    My first Comic Con!

    More details
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  • A presentation at the Royal College of Art with a large projection screen displaying text and two speakers on stage, one seated and one standing.

    Design Futures Symposium 2024 at the Royal College of Art

    PRESENTATION AND PANEL (08.24) 🇬🇧

    I was on a panel with fellow futures nerd Tobias Revell to talk about my experience of doing Design Futures projects in the industry.

    This was for the first graduation symposium for The Design Futures Masters at the Royal College of Art.

    More details
    More more details

  • A panel discussion is taking place indoors in a greenhouse-like space with green vines and leaves overhead. Six panelists sit in front of a large digital screen displaying six profile pictures and names. An audience sits facing the panel, with some taking photos or notes.

    'Bioanarchy' panel at Symbiocene

    PANEL DISCUSSION (06.23)

    Climate Change Speculation and Action panel at Symbiocene in London.

  • Person in tan jacket and black shirt standing outside comic book store, holding a comic book. Store window filled with vintage and new comics, with sign displaying 'Super Heroes, Vintage & New Comics, Manga, Gosh!'

    Eliza @ Gosh Comics

    BOOK STORE (05.24) 🇬🇧

    Misinformation Malarkey Comics now available at Gosh Comics

    1 Berwick St
    London W1F 0DR

  • A round pin or badge with a black and gold design reading 'UNGCJ UNGCU JUSTICE,' featuring a globe surrounded by wheat and a circular target pattern.

    Living in the Age of Green Dictatorship

    SPECULATIVE DESIGN WORKSHOP (04.23) 🇬🇧

    A Speculative Design Workshop for Global Innovation Design at the RCA / Imperial Coltege hat put students in an extreme climate context to create radical solutions for a better planet.

    Co-created with Audrey Gaulard.
    Run with Larissa Kunstel-Tabet

  • A poster advertising a sci-fi story titled 'Eliza in Misinformation Malarkey,' featuring a cartoon character with a skull face standing on a digital scale, with a swirling galaxy and Earth in the background, set against an outdoor backdrop of a body of water and city buildings.

    Misinformation Malarkey

    PRINT COMIC (03.24)

    A cautionary tale about a world where all human-made knowledge, art, and science is replaced with machine generated, incoherent, purpose-less “content”. How does humanity cope with this? Can Eliza, the machine consciousness residing in all global technological systems save this world from a Misinformation Malarkey? ‘Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine’ is the Science Fiction of today.

    Order a copy

    Also Available at
    Gosh Comics, Soho, London
    Cartoon Museum Store, London

  • A Manifesto for Speculative Design Practice

    WRITTEN MANIFESTO (01.24)

    "A Manifesto for Speculative Design Practice" that rationalises the "Evidence > Extrapolation" process that I’ve iterated upon over the past few years, so I could have a blueprint for tackling speculation projects in the future.

    Read here

  • People attending a presentation in a large, well-lit room with a high ceiling, two levels of bookshelves or display cases, and a projection screen at the front showing a digital interface and vivid artwork.

    Living in the Age of Green Dictatorship

    SPECULATIVE DESIGN WORKSHOP (11.23) 🇬🇧

    A Speculative Design Workshop for Innovation Design Engineering that put students in an extreme climate context to create radical solutions for a better planet.

    Co-created with Audrey Gaulard.
    More details.

  • Five men are sitting on a stage in discussion, with a sixth man seated on the floor nearby. A presentation screen is overhead, and a table with two laptops and microphones is to the right. The setting appears to be a panel or group discussion at Royal College, Postgraduate Art & Design.

    Morphing Futures; the crossroads of Generative Design, AI, and Modern Practice

    SYMPOSIUM (11.23) 🇬🇧

    AI and Design Symposium at the RCA’s Design Products Course. More details, and some pictures.

  • A group of people gathered around a table looking at books and screens displaying a presentation about Eliza, the ghost in every machine, with a cartoon character of a ghost in a machine on the large screen.

    Alternative Todays

    KEYNOTE (10.23) 🇬🇧

    A talk about Speculative Design as means of imagining and delivering better futures; for Innovation Design Engineering, and Global Innovation Design – double masters projects between the RCA and Imperial College.
    Included a deep dive on my journey with Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine.

  • A cartoon-style skeleton with a pink outline and a pink shirt emerging from a smartphone, pointing outward with the words 'That's all Folks!' written below in red cursive text.

    Eliza: 120 Cartoons Complete!

    CARTOONS (09.23) 🌐

    After 2.5 years, Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine is done with 120 cartoons that critique the place of Tech in our lives; in the style of the New Yorker Cartoons.
    Next up, Eliza will feature in short sci-fi graphic stories, starting with “Misinformation Malarkey”.

  • A group of people seated around a table in a room with exposed brick wall and wooden ceiling, watching a presentation projected on a screen. The screen displays graphs and video call images.

    Alternative todays and better tomorrows

    KEYNOTE (09.23) 🇧🇪

    A talk about Speculative Design as means of imagining and delivering better futures; for Living Summer School 2023.

  • Event poster for TALK by Viraj Joshi on Futures and Fiction, scheduled for August 24th, 2023 at 6 PM CET, with a colorful geometric background and the phrase 'Innovated by Design' at the top.

    'FUTUREBABBLE' @ Innovated by Design

    GUEST TALK (08.23) 🌐

    ▶️ Watch online

    ‘FutureBabble’ investigates speculation as a craft and its value in research, design, and innovation processes. It seeks to validate the place of futures and fiction beyond ‘mere’ provocation and imagination.

  • 'FUTUREBABBLE' @ Wolffkraft

    GUEST TALK (07.23) 🇮🇳

    Guest talk with Wolffkraft – a Strategy and Design Studio; where I did on Speculative Design as a topic, showed the process behind Eliza - the Ghost in Every Machine and Postcards from the Future; and did an exercise around “Her” the 2013 Spike Jonze film.

    Their blog recounts the event in great detail and kind words.

  • Black and white photograph of a man wearing glasses and a jacket, standing outdoors in an urban area with high-rise buildings in the background. Overlay text announces an event titled 'Futurebabble' featuring Viraj Joshi, a Service and Interaction Designer at Fjord, presented by the Strategic Foresight Guild Speaker Series 2023.

    'FUTUREBABBLE' @ IBM

    GUEST TALK (06.23) 🌐

    Guest talk with IBM’s Strategic Foresight Guild on Speculative Design, and the criticality and speculation in Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine.

  • Book cover titled "Design Resilience" with a robotic arm and hand, featuring bold pink and purple text, discussing technology's role in creating resilience, by Dylan Yamada-Rice, Ved Sen, and Viraj Joshi.

    DESIGN.RESILIENCE @ HELEN HAMLYN CENTRE FOR DESIGN

    PANEL DISCUSSION (06.23) 🇬🇧

    ▶️ Watch on youtube

    Panel Discussion hosted by Madelaine Dowd for the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design under the title Design.Resilience; along with Ved Sen and Dylan Yamada-Rice.

    Presented my short story “Our Absolute Last Hope is Absolute”

  • Title slide of a presentation titled 'Future Babble' by Viraj Joshi, dated 26 May 2023, featuring background images of a person holding a small device and electronic components

    'FUTUREBABBLE' @ D-FORD

    GUEST TALK (05.23) 🌐

    Guest talk for D-Ford on Speculative design, and the criticality and speculation in Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine.

  • Four people sitting around a small wooden table in a greenhouse-like setting with large windows and lush greenery outside. One woman and three men are engaged in a discussion, with water bottles and glasses on the table.

    THE FUTURE PROMPT - MILAN DESIGN WEEK

    PANEL DISCUSSION (04.23) 🇮🇹

    ▶️ Watch on Youtube

    THE FUTURE PROMPT:// a panel hosted by Domus Academy and Speculative Futures Milan, where I sat down with Alexandra Mihai, Simone Rebaudengo, and Tobias Revell, and we spoke through our Design Fiction around AI and design.
    This piece of work became Eliza no. 100.

  • Screenshot of a research article titled "Whose Preferred Future Is This? On Possibility, Potential, and Plurality in Visions of the Future" published by World Futures Review, April 18, 2023, authored by Viraj Joshi.

    WHOSE PREFERRED FUTURE IS THIS?

    RESEARCH ARTICLE (04.23) 🌐

    Read here
    For World Futures Review
    Featuring Postcards from the Future.

  • Graphic with large number 43 and text listing activities: Artificial Diversity, DIY Geoengineering, Quantitative Aesthetics. Includes a note 'From Later @since21XX' and photos of three smiling young men.

    BROADCAST FROM LATER - EP43

    PODCAST (04.23) 🌐

    ▶️ Watch on Youtube
    🎧 Listen to Podcast

    I joined Tobias Revell, Sydney Allen-Ash, and Robert Bolton to talk drop-shipped, crowd-funded cloud-seeding; the uncanny bigotry of AI generated fashion models; and how we ended up in the era of “quantitative aesthetics” — on Broadcast From Later.

  • Poster for a series called 'Speculative Futures Talk Series' running from April 3rd to April 14th, 2023, organized by L3 Studio and Speculative Realities 2050, featuring abstract digital artwork with interconnected nodes and lines on a dark background.

    'FUTUREBABBLE' AT CEPT

    CEPT, AHMEDABAD
    GUEST TALK (04.23) 🇮🇳

    Guest talk for CEPT, Ahmedabad.

  • ELIZA AI - ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL 2023

    CARTOONS (03.23) 🌐

    13 captions to an Eliza drawing from 13 prolific creatives, for the cartoon’s 2nd anniversary.

  • A classroom with students watching a presentation on a large screen, with one student using a laptop.

    SHOULD WE STOP DREAMING OF ANDROIDS WHO DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?

    IAAD BOLOGNA AND TURIN
    GUEST TALK (02.23) 🇮🇹

    Guest talk on AI-Futures featuring “Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine” for IAAD Bologna and Turin, in a week long session about tying AI solutions to SDG goals, by Elena Falomo.

  • Cover page of a presentation for Business Design Academy titled "An introduction to Future Casting" by Viraj Joshi and Mariam Merchant, January 2023, featuring a minimalist design with colored lines.

    FUTURE CASTING

    ACCENTURE SONG
    TALK AND WORKSHOP (01.23) 🇬🇧

    For Fjord / Accenture Song’s business designers.

  • A visually illustrated informational poster titled "Dreams of a Resilient Planet" with detailed sketches and text about environmental actions and digital identity, created by Virat Joshi in 2022.

    DREAMS OF A RESILIENT PLANET

    UNIVERSITY OF ARTS, LONDON
    GUEST LECTURE (11.22) 🇬🇧

    For UAL’s Climate Challenge: Creative Collaborations module for it’s undergrads, I debuted my climate fiction piece “Dreams of a Resilient Planet.”

  • Page from a booklet with cartoon character and numbered sections titled in Latin and English, discussing topics like 'Manus et Machina,' 'Own Worst Enemy,' and 'Villainy Incorporates'.

    SPECULATIVE DESIGN LIBRARY @SOCIETY 5.0

    SOCIETY 5.0 FESTIVAL 2022
    EXHIBITION (10.22) 🇳🇱

    Eliza and Postcards from the Future were invited to be a part of the Speculative Design Library at Society 5.0 Festival in Amsterdam.

  • A group of people attending a workshop or presentation inside an industrial-style space with exposed brick walls and a high, glass-ceiling roof. The presenter is standing near a large screen displaying colorful artwork, gesturing as they speak.

    KEYNOTE: "A LICENCE TO DREAM"

    LIVING SUMMER SCHOOL 2022
    TALK (09.22) 🇧🇪

    I was invited for a keynote at Living Summer School 2022 by Eiland Collective where young activists, entrepreneurs, designers and artists explored the future of living in Kortrijk, Belgium.

  • Cover page for a chapter titled 'Start Your Engines' from a design guide, featuring a spacecraft with robotic arms in space.

    DESIGN FUTURES 6-WEEK COURSE

    TUTORING (09.22) 🇮🇳

    Led a 6 week Design Futures Module for MIT-Institute of Design’s masters students.

  • An animated graphic depicting a showdown between a grandmother with boxing gloves and a futuristic robot in a neon cityscape, with text 'Grandma vs Metaverse' and a 'Fight' sign.

    Being bold with futures

    SCIENCE FICTION WRITING, DRAWING WORKSHOP (03-07.22) 🇬🇧

    See all stories on their website.
    After the workshop done by Arthur Gouillart and me for Fjord London's annual "Equinox" festival, I curated the output stories along with an internal team of illustrators and designers.

  • UX Mag Feature: Speculating Metaverse Interactions

    ARTICLE (07.22) 🖥️

    Read on UXMag.com: An analysis of human-machine interactions in a spatial internet future with my weekly AI fiction cartoon: Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine.

  • Cover slide for a presentation titled 'Situating Futures in Business Design' by Viraj Joshi, with a background image of a futuristic cityscape at night with tall buildings and neon lights.

    Situating futures in business design

    TALK AND WORKSHOP (07.22) 🇧🇪🇪🇸🇵🇹

    Conducted a workshop to introduce design futures techniques to Fjord business designers in Spain and Portugal.

  • experimental realism 2022

    TUTORING (06-12.22) 🖥️

    Had the pleasure of tutoring Shruthi Venkat for Experimental Realism’s 2nd year.

  • Illustration of a busy convention or expo with many small cartoon characters, booths, and signs. Some signs include phrases like 'BUY!!', 'Dark Web Alleys', and 'HACKERS DOING SHENANIGANS.' Several characters are holding signs that say 'Accept,' and there are various speech bubbles and advertisements scattered throughout.

    TALES ABOUT (AND FROM) TOMORROW

    GUEST LECTURE (04.22) 🇦🇪

    Speculative design guest lecture for NYU Abu Dhabi’s “Manus et Machina” undergrad module.

  • A webpage or article about speculative metaverse interactions with Eliza titled 'The Ghost in Every Machine,' authored by Viraj Joshi, with a link to virajjoshimedia.com and published by Medium.

    SPECULATING METAVERSE INTERACTIONS

    ARTICLE (04.22) 🖥️

    An analysis of human-machine interactions in a spatial internet future with my weekly AI fiction cartoon: Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine.

  • A diverse group of people attending a meeting or workshop in a modern conference room. Some are sitting at a table taking notes, others are standing and presenting information on a large screen. Posters with LGBTQ+ pride colors and messages are on the walls.

    BEING BOLD WITH FUTURES

    TALK AND WORKSHOP (03.22) 🇬🇧

    With Arthur Gouillart, for Fjord London
    For Fjord's annual festival, Equinox, Arthur and I did an hour-long talk followed by a workshop for writing Science Fiction.

  • Cover of a guidebook titled "A fiction writer's guide to invention" by Viraj Joshi for Microsoft FHL, featuring cartoon characters and a potted plant in the background.

    A fiction writer's guide to invention

    GUEST LECTURE (03.22) 🇩🇪

    Microsoft invited me for a guest lecture at their “Fix-hack-learn” / FHL week.

  • A digital illustration of a robot with a party hat, looking at a smartphone decorated for a celebration, with balloons, a cake with cherries, and presents, celebrating an anniversary for Eliza.

    ELIZA AI – ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL 2022

    CARTOONS (03.22) 🖥️

    Eliza – The Ghost in Every Machine turns one year old and we have amazing guests on writing and art duties for the celebration!

  • Logo with interconnected green and blue lines forming a square, with the text 'oneday in 2050' beside it

    Net-zero bird in hand

    SHORT STORY (02.22) 🖥️

    A fictional news report set in 2050, a cautionary tale, written for One Day 2050.

  • Open book with the title "Anomaly in the Rhythm" by Viraj Joshi, held in front of a bookshelf filled with books in a room.

    anomaly in the rhythm

    SHORT STORY (02.22) 🇬🇧

    Published as a part of ‘Vital Signals’ a collection of near future fiction works, available now.

  • Workshop presentation slide titled 'Provocation v Innovation' with a background of a concept car or experimental vehicle in a modern, high-tech setting. The slide includes names of speakers Arthr Gouillart and Viraj Joshi, their titles, and contact websites, along with a subtitle about a speculative design boost for IDE RCA / Imperial College, dated January 2022.

    Provocation v Innovation

    TUTORING (01.21) 🇬🇧

    Speculative design workshop for Innovation Design Engineering at the RCA / Imperial College for 2nd year masters students with Arthur Gouillart.

  • Pink background with abstract red swirl design, text overlay reading 'Future Based Beyond Human Relations 6 No. 31' in white and purple font.

    Future Based Podcast

    INTERVIEW ON PODCAST (12.21) 🇳🇱

    Interview featuring Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine on the Future Based Podcast.

  • Screenshot of a virtual video conference with four participants. Top left: two women smiling; one with curly hair, the other with blonde hair and glasses. Top right: a man with short hair making a peace sign gesture. Bottom left: a smiling man with glasses and dark hair, labeled Ben (he/him). Bottom right: a man with glasses and curly dark hair, labeled Viral.

    GAEA FESTIVAL

    PANEL DISCUSSION (12.21) 🇬🇧🇺🇸

    AI futures panel discussion at Gaea Festival at Mika Bushwick, NYC, watch now.

  • A space station module attached to a spacecraft in outer space, with the title 'Probing our Futures with Design' overlaid.

    PROBING OUR FUTURES WITH DESIGN

    KEYNOTE (11.21) 🇺🇸

    For Newell Brands’ internal conference, read more.

  • Comparison chart titled 'Design Fiction vs. Design Futures' with two columns of text. The left column titled 'Design Fiction' lists characteristics like 'Time agnostic,' 'Alternate world,' 'To provoke people,' 'Output over process,' 'Critical first,' 'World-building,' 'Problem framing,' 'Implications.' The right column titled 'Design Futures' lists 'Time sensitive,' 'Our world,' 'To make a strategy,' 'Process as important as output,' 'Constructive first,' 'Forecasting,' 'Opportunity finding,' 'Implications and applications.' At the bottom are three phrases in blue: 'Change us to suit the world*,' 'For provocation*,' 'Research through design*' on the left, and 'Change the world to suit us*,' 'For innovation*,' 'Research for design*' on the right.

    Design fiction and design futures

    MEDIUM ARTICLE (11.21) 🖥️

    Differences between Design Fiction and Design Futures, read now.

  • Text overlay on a swirling, colorful background promotes an event titled "SITUATING, TRANSFORMING, AND (DE)GENTRING IMAGES OF THE FUTURE." The event took place from October 6-9, 2021, in Toronto and worldwide, related to 4S 2021.

    Situating, transforming, de-centering images of futures

    PANEL DISCUSSION (10.21) 🇨🇦

    Done at 4S Festival online.

  • A scene from the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation featuring Commander Riker.

    Design Futures 6-week course

    TUTORING (09.21) 🇮🇳

    Led a 6 week Design Futures Module for MIT-Institute of Design’s masters students.

  • Cover of an article titled 'Making Up Design Fiction: An Express Method.' The image shows two sections: the left part depicts travelers with backpacks walking over a pile of debris, and the right part has a close-up of a futuristic, circular structure against a blue sky with clouds.

    Making Up Design Fiction: An Express Method

    MEDIUM ARTICLE (08.21) 🖥️

    Read now.

  • Photo of two men side by side with circular frames. The left man is smiling with short dark hair, labeled Martin Perez Comisso with a description of mentor. The right man has glasses, a small beard, and a checkered shirt, labeled Viraj Joshi with a description of mentor. Centered text reads #ExRE2021.

    EXPERIMENTAL REALISM 2021

    TUTORING (07.21) 🖥️

    Had the pleasure of mentoring Martin Comisso Perez for Experimental Realism's debut year.

  • Event poster titled 'Postcards from the Future: Crowdsourcing a Design Fiction Artifact' promoting a workshop by PRIMER21, with menu options for Schedule, Workshops, About Us, and Tickets.

    PRIMER '21 CONFERENCE

    WORKSHOP (07.21) 🌍

    “Postcards from the Future” live Design Fiction creation workshop at the Primer ‘21 conference.

  • An interview page featuring designer and technologist Viraj Joshi, with a photo of him with dark curly hair, glasses, and a beige coat, standing outdoors near autumn leaves.

    Design India Magazine interview

    INTERVIEW IN PRINT MAGAZINE (05.21) 🇮🇳

    Design India Magazine, May 2021, issue 129.

  • Exterior view of the Royal College of Art building under a blue sky with scattered clouds, with a tree in front and students walking by.

    Visiting Lecturer, rca

    TUTORING (04.21) 🇬🇧

    Started as an interaction and speculative design tutor at Innovation Design Engineering, a 2 years masters course between the Royal College of Art and Imperial College, London.

  • Event poster titled 'Futures Jargon Mythbusting' presented by Speculative Futures Stockholm, focusing on design futures, critical design, fables, and science fiction, with a description of an evening of anecdotes and stories about technologies and provocative ideas from speculative designers.

    FUTURES JARGON MYTHBUSTING

    PANEL DISCUSSION (04.21) 🇸🇪

    Was a host and speaker at Speculative Future, Stockholm's "Futures Jargon Mythbusting" event, watch on YouTube.

  • A promotional graphic with the text 'Meet the Community' above a profile photo of a man with dark hair and glasses, looking to the right. The background features a colorful, abstract design with yellow and orange tones and blue accents.

    INTERVIEW WITH AIXDESIGN

    INTERVIEW (04.21) 🖥️

    AIxDesign featured an interview with me on their Medium.

  • Villager Friendship Progression Chart featuring animal characters from Animal Crossing. The chart shows a progression from Boone and Octavian at the beginning, through Phoebe, Graham, Bam, Aurora, and Canberra, to Audie at the top. Each villager is represented by a colorful cartoon animal illustration.

    What Animal Crossing Taught Me About Data and Interaction Design

    MEDIUM ARTICLE (01.21) 🖥️

    Read now.

  • Promotional poster for a workshop called "Postcards from the Future" about designing a world for speculative fiction, featuring a Martian theme and interplanetary dial codes.

    SPECULATIVE FUTURES ROTTERDAM

    WORKSHOP (01.21) 🇳🇱

    “Postcards from the Future” live Design Fiction creation workshop. Read medium article.

  • Book titled 'Designing Objects in Motion' placed on a wooden surface, featuring a person in a white shirt and pants holding a rod, with text highlighting exploring kinaesthetic empathy.

    Work featured in Birkhäuser publication

    PUBLICATION (12.20) 🇩🇪

    2 of my products designed in support of Kensho Miyoshi's PhD about Objects in Motion are now in a book published by Birkhäuser.

  • Poster with the title 'Futuring Peace Honorable Mention The Utopia Compass' showing a hand holding a smartwatch with colorful graphics and icons, with logos of UN and design initiatives in the top right corner.

    THE UTOPIA COMPASS

    EXHIBITION (11.20) 🖥️

    Design fiction piece + film by Nadia Piet and me, featured as in the “Futuring Peace” exhibition by The United Nations DPPA, and The Design Futures Initiative.

  • A promotional poster for a virtual nursery program from 2020, featuring a highlighted mentor named Viraj Joshi, a designer and technologist. The poster includes his name, titles, and a pixelated image of him wearing glasses.

    POLLINATOR RESIDENCY MENTORSHIP

    MENTORSHIP (09.20) 🇮🇳

    Press release

  • A logo with a black circle inside a geometric design of triangles and lines, with the text "SPECIULATIVE FUTURES STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN."

    Building Future Worlds for Science Fiction

    MEDIUM ARTICLE (09.20) 🇸🇪

    Read Now

  • Digital magazine cover titled 'Publications of Tomorrow' with a black circle, bold black and red text overlay, and a background filled with repeated 'zero nothing zilch zip zero nada void' text.

    POSTCARDS FROM THE FUTURE @ VARIATIONS ON TOMORROW

    ZINE FEATURE (08.20) 🖥️

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  • Event poster for 'Talkies' on June 20th, 5pm to 6pm IST, discussing future culture and consumption. Features speakers Viraj Joshi, a designer and technologist at Fjord Stockholm, and Shaleen Wadhwana, an independent arts and heritage professional. Hosted on Instagram Live.

    FUTURE CULTURE AND IT'S CONSUMPTION

    INTERVIEW (06.20) 🇮🇳

    With Art and Charlie. Watch now.

  • Event flyer for 'The Dohickéy' screening and interactive session on June 16 at 6PM CET, featuring a collaboration between Speculative Futures Stockholm, Sweden, and Viraj Joshi.

    THE DOOHICKEY

    TALK / WORKSHOP (06.20) 🇸🇪

    Speculative Futures, Stockholm, Watch video

  • Design poster with the title 'Futuro, Diseño y Storytelling' and a subtitle mentioning an interview with Viraj Joshi about Future Design methodology. The poster features a red background with white geometric shapes and overlapping circles containing the words 'Futuro,' 'Diseño,' and 'Storytelling,' with the word 'Entrevista' below them.

    Futuro, Diseño y Storytelling

    INTERVIEW IN SPANISH (05.20) 🇨🇴

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  • A young girl walking in a park during sunset with a stylized rocket graphic overlayed in the foreground.

    THE DOOHICKEY RELEASE

    SCIENCE FICTION FILM (03.20) 🖥️

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  • Sign about ancient history with a diagram of a public space, including buildings, trees, benches, and street lamps, with information from 326 BC.

    Patlypatras @ IndiaNama 2019

    EXHIBITION (01.20) 🇮🇳

    "Patlypatras", an alternate history piece, exhibited at the Indianama 2019 exhibition.

  • A person giving a presentation to a small audience in a room with a large screen displaying a colorful slide about Korea, flying cars, and moon tourism.

    Pecha Kucha, Stockholm

    TALK (06.19) 🇸🇪

    “Design, technology, speculation, and making”, listen now.

  • Title page of an academic paper titled 'Creative Haptic Interface Design for the Aging Population' with author Eric Heng Gu, publication details, and DOI.

    Tangible Interface Experiments in an academic paper

    ACADEMIC PAPER BY ERIC HENG GU (12.18) 🖥️

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  • Technology exhibit setup with a black table holding two monitors, a large display screen on a stand showing digital graphics, and a lit informational sign on the right in a room with purple lighting.

    AirWire @ Science Museum

    EXHIBITION (10.18) 🇬🇧

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  • A magazine article featuring Viraj Joshi's 'AirWire' technology, showing a workspace with electronic components, a laptop, and a glowing pink wire illustrating the concept.

    AirWire on Clot Design

    MAGAZINE FEATURE (09.18) 🖥️

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  • Two young adults demonstrating an electronic device with finger gestures in a tech demonstration, with circuit boards on a table.

    AirWire "Best of Student Design" Article

    NEWS ARTICLE (09.18) 🇬🇧

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  • Exhibit display with tech and tools at Royal College of Art Show 2018, showcasing innovative design projects.

    AirWire @ RCA Show 2018 Article

    NEWS ARTICLE (06.18) 🇬🇧

    “Inclusive, Tactile, Future Facing Innovations”

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  • View of a desk with a computer monitor, a stand with a blue arm and black head, and three small robotic components inside black frames. The monitor displays a dark screen, and there is a small label on the desk marked "AIRWIRE ARENA."

    AirWire @ RCA Show 2018

    EXHIBITION (06.18) 🇬🇧

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  • A man presenting in front of a small group of people in a room with paintings on the wall, a music stand, and a large screen displaying a presentation titled 'Anomaly in The Rhythm.'

    Anomaly in the Rhythm @ Virtual Futures

    SHORT STORY (05.18) 🇬🇧

    Short sci-fi story written for and read at Virtual Futures’ post brain event.

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  • A young man in a blue shirt and glasses is standing outside a shop with a large blue door, listening to headphones and looking at his phone. The shop window displays various items, including small statues and decorative objects.

    IMI on Yanko Design

    ONLINE FEATURE (06.17) 🖥️

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