I'm doing a talk on Friday at Wuthering Bytes. This is a place for links for that talk (the slides are here).

The talk is about why I think prototyping can poke holes in peoples' realities so they can see possible futures that they can interact with and have agency within. It's a mixture of links to my work stuff (from my nearly 15 years with BBC R&D), other cool things such as those coming from Bristol Hackspace and other places, and some other sources of inspiration.

I worked for several years creating physical prototypes about TV and Radio in order to gather better, more interested, emotional feedback on our ideas. There's a summary on the BBC R&D site of our Tellybox work and similar for Radio. And it all began for me with Radiodan and our Wrong Radio postcards.

For Design Fictions, Smithery's "time capsule retrieval service" was an inspiration, as was the Near Future Laboratory. I got the idea of thingspace from Richard Pope's productspace.

Shonky, unfinished prototypes began for me with Shonkbot. I love the MyNaturewatch camera and use mine all the time.

At R&D we had a project for Better Images of AI, anti-white-robot stock images.

I'm waiting for my old group in R&D to blog about their work on BBC Introducing. Hurry!

The BBC 100th object made by Jasmine and me is documented here.

And because this has ended up being a sort of eulogy to BBC R&D: I can't tell you how brilliant it was working there, and this was because of all the exceptional people I worked with. Here are some I worked with day to day, although there were so many more who made it the place it was:

Andrew Nicolaou and Dan Nuttall (Radiodan); Joanne Moore, Alan Bacon, Henry Cooke, Tim Cowlishaw, Tristan Ferne, Matt Hammond, Nick Humfrey, Tom Howe, Kristian Hentschel, Alicia Grandjean, Chris Needham, Anthony Onumonu, Sacha Sedriks, Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy (Tellybox); Kate Towsey, AndrewW, Dan, Joanne, David Man, Joanna Rusznica, David McGoran, Emma Powell, Richard Sewell (Better Radio Experiences). Henry, Ian Forrester, Suzanne Clarke and lots of others (Futures). Jasmine Cox, Marvin McKenzie, Bill Thompson (100 Objects). Tristan, DavidM, Mathieu Triay, Andrew Wood, Hannah Clawson, Clare McAndrew, Sami Haidar Wehbe, Johanna Kollman (BBC Introducing Project / Designing for Public Value). My brilliant trainees, Kristian, Emma Young, Ben Hughes, Miruna Radut and Galen Reich. Special thanks to George, Adrian, Tristan, and earlier, Andrew McP for protecting our work from the vagaries of the BBC and for all-round excellent advice.

Special extra thanks to Richard Sewell, Jasmine and Danbri for commenting on earlier versions of my talk.

Much love to the Hackspace chips crew.