A four screen installation showcasing original futures of zero-emissions racing
Author: normals
SIMONES DE GAULLÉON — A Public Experiment in Political Fiction
A public thought-experiment in politics and AI where dead heroes are artificially brought back to life to run for the presidency
Responsibility Machines — Challenging Assistants for Challenging Times
Research and development of a set of assistants to save on resources — for when the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
Foresight Glasses— Immersing in 6 VR Futures
A VR experience to explore the values of six futures for Germany.
Personal Assistant of the Collapsing Nation of Pyria
A durable personal assistant designed to help the amateur survivalist out of post-apocalyptic pinches
GRASIAS, the Good Collapse — Exhibition
Documentation of an installation on a nation choosing to voluntarily collapse.
GRASIAS — Designing the Dawn of Society, Digital Catalogue
What if a modern society, certain of its imminent demise, decided to unite and voluntarily disappear?
I Went to Mexico City to Discover How Crypto-economics Could Save the Environment, and All I Got Was This Lousy T‑shirt.
A short piece of fictional investigative journalism exploring a future Mexico City
FUTURE FORUM — Imagining Berlin's Future Museums
Creation of a future Berlin for an audio walk around the Kulturforum's cultural institutions
SKULD — Public Participation Game for Planetary Futures
Participative game of planetary futures deployed during NODE20 festival
Molecular Futures — A VR Day in a Life
An immersive experience lets virtual visitors experience 5 different futures and their intricate worldbuilding
Futures to Experience
Experiences devised to immerse in constructed futures.
F F T P — Soundtrack to Future Fishing
Collection of soundtracks for FFTP projects
The Future of Values — Short Animation
Short animation and quick world-building to introduce the work in foresight at Germany's Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF)
Euromesh, Dataculture, and Private Property
A fictional public talk commissioned for an event about "tricking the digital"
Rule of Nature — A Fictional Panel
Collaborative worldbuilding on AI-mediated ecology, later presented as a fictional panel discussion in public
Presomnic Image Permanence Device & Dreamscapes
Fictional devices born out of the commodification of sleep
'Could Be Actual Science'
Fictional white papers, future science, not-yet-applicable theories… This is when fiction gets closer to science.
CCCC.City — Game Kit Design
Citizen Kit for CCCC.City collaborative worldbuilding game
CCCC.City — A Collaborative Worldbuilding Game
A participative installation combining the mechanics of role-play, board games, and rapid prototyping
Futures Made of Play
Playful experiences designed to let others build and test futures.
→ C D R M X — Watch Fictional Talk @Republica 18
Stream of a fictional public talk (to a very real audience) on social cryptoeconomics for the CDRMX project
C D R M X — A Fiction for Mexico City
Worldbuilding, fictional public talk, and participative roleplaying for a rejuvenated future Mexico City
C D R M X — Autonomous Neighborhood Printing
Design for a semi-ridiculous and fully-autonomous neighborhood printer
Undercover Fictions
Not hoaxes, yet still slightly deceptive. Futures disguised as facts can stir up a crowd and reveal unique perspectives.
The Future Fishing Training Program — Presentation Video
Documentary-style presentation of the Future Fishing Training Program, a program to help visualize futures
Artefact #0 — Digital Necrophony
Audiovisual installation on the digital afterlife
L I T T L E B R O W S E R
An 3D browser that autonomously navigates the web rendered as landscapes
HTML2RPG — Hyperlinked map editor for a playable internet
A look into alternative ways at navigating web content
→ View the Map of the Normal Future
Map of the Normal future
An interactive map of the Culture, a future city that has expanded vertically.
Future Horizons
From now to then, or from plausible to utopian, different time scales suit different ways to imagine the future.
A P P A R E L v1.0 — Project Page
A P P A R E L v1.0 — Background and Technicalities
Background information on the speculative fashion project
A P P A R E L v1.0 — Fashioned Out of Digital Fabric
Apparel v1.0 is an experimental prototype of future AR fashion
A P P A R E L v1.0 — Documentary
Documentary fiction depicting a future, half-digital approach to fashion
Normal, Like Source Code Chic
Short story for the A P P A R E L project
A P P A R E L V1.0 — Soundtrack
Soundtrack of the A P P A R E L project.
Cards of the Normal Future
A set of cards designed around role-play and accidents in collective futuring sessions.
Mangel — Angel Diet Food Printer
Speculative food dispenser with autonomous mobility. Background object in N 0 0 2
Locales of the Normal Future #1 — UTF404
Creative worldbuilding workshop with design students from Les Arènes, Toulouse
The Price of Appreciation
Investigative-style fiction looking at the evolution of 'Likes' into digital currencies
Like a First Dip Into the Stream
A speculative paper role-playing game in anticipation of the web’s future mutations
Agnostic Futurism
Preferable futures to some can become harsh realities to others. So we pursue nuance and invite criticism.
2033's Best Substitute Realities
A visual catalogue of speculative entertainment applications for head-worn display owners. Featured in HOLO magazine‘s first issue.
Birthmachine — Celestial Hyperventilation Mod
Speculative device for giving birth autonomously
N 1 2 3
A set of 3 publications revisiting the work of N O R M A L S during the years 2012 — 2013, all narratively bound by a graphic novel
N 0 0 2
Second issue of the N O R M A L S publication series.
N 0 0 1
First issue of the N O R M A L S publication series.
N 0 0 3
Third issue of the N O R M A L S publication series.
N 1 2 3 — The soundtrack
Theme for the N123 release music video
N 1 2 3 — Release Clip
Short music video in diegesis to celebrate the release of N O R M A L 001 + 002 + 003
Worldbuilding & Mythbuilding
When imagining the manufactured environment of a world, one has to imagine its interplay with culture and myths.
Rapid Language — Interactive Learning App
An interactive application to learn Rapid Language, a speculative mode of communication for a future, ever-accelerating web.
The Culture, A World-City
A fictional city and setting to the 'Normal Future.' Also used as a sandbox for various projects and collaborations.
N O R M A L T Y P E — Specimen Posters
Specimen posters showcasing a dynamic and variable typeface
N O R M A L T Y P E v1.5.4
New and revised version of our parametric typeface
Designed Futures
Design Fictions, Speculative Design, Critical Design, Anticipatory Design…However you call it, making futures seem like they're already here is the cornerstone of our practice.
A P P A R E L v0.9a
A dynamic piece of clothing that is half digital and half physical
P O L Y R O T O R v1.1
Experimental vector drawing application
N O R M A L T Y P E v1.0
A custom application of variable and parametric typography
Normal, Like a Glitch
Short fiction on AR and the value of digitally native objects
Augmented Futilities #2
AR as a place for objects of a sentimental or symbolic value
Augmented Futilities #1
Sample from visual research on an augmented landscape.
Rapid Language — Speculative Linguistics
A research project looking at interoperating human and machine language on an intuitive level