I talked about the future of game design at an expert meeting organized by STT (Netherlands Study Centre for Technology Trends). These are the slides, the notes are available on the Hubbub blog: http://whatsthehubbub.nl/?p=684

1. the limits of the
imaginable
Games: The Next Step – STT – 20 October 2010
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

2. design

3. Lyddle End 2050: Tuur van Balen, Matt Jones, Toby Barnes, David Hayward & James Bridle

4. “What we are really
experiencing now is a
massive cybernetic
hemorrhage in ways of
knowing the world.”
– Bruce Sterling

5. “If the world is a science
fiction novel then what do
you read? What can the
literature do for you?”
– Kim Stanley Robinson

6. Okinawa Soba

7. Andreas Metz

8. cities

9. Jason Hawkes

10. Claire L. Evans

16. biology

18. Natalie Jeremijenko

19. Antoine Blanchard

20. Wooden Logic, Matt Cottam

23. in summary…

24. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

25. Timothy Wells

26. Jonathan Baldwin

27. “Always design a thing
by considering its next
larger context…”
– Eliel Saarinen

28. Powers of Ten (1968)

29. relational,
environmental
game design

30. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

31. thanks!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)