The Future Laboratory

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Designing for Mutualism

As advanced technologies evolve into agents with memory, intuition and emerging behaviours, designers are exploring how humans and intelligent systems can work together to shape artefacts that capture dreams, perception and serendipity.

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Gaming & Digital Spaces

Lego’s screen-free Smart Play tests boundaries of tech and imagination

At CES 2026, Lego unveiled Smart Play, a connected system that transforms its physical bricks into responsive play experiences using light, sound and movement – without relying on screens or tablets.

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Marketing & Branding

Foresight Friday: Gabriela Białkowska, creative foresight analyst

Every Friday, we offer an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about. This week, creative foresight analyst Gabriela Białkowska dives into the latest from Poland: vodka served in juice boxes, an AI-enabled chapel and a brain drink.

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Luxury

Preview: The Learning Economy

Global – LS:N Global’s latest macrotrend deals with why and how the separation between industry and education is breaking down.

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Technology

Isolation optimisation

London – The Institute of Isolation film proposes a training programme aimed at optimising the brain and the body through sensory deprivation and complete separation from society.