{"id":1780,"date":"2017-05-02T14:34:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T14:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonings.com\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2017-05-11T16:06:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T16:06:05","slug":"the-dreams-our-stuff-is-made-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"The dreams our stuff is made of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1778\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/21182nocraftlgfmt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/21182nocraftlgfmt.jpg 710w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/21182nocraftlgfmt-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/21182nocraftlgfmt-495x300.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We imagine things before we make them, from spacecraft to smartphones \u2013 and designers often turn artists&#8217; imaginings of the future into our everyday reality. So who&#8217;s in charge?<\/p>\n<p>I am.<\/p>\n<p>At least, I will be on 29 June when I herd Matt Smith (editor of 2000 AD) spaceflight expert Piers Bizony and architect Liam Young into London&#8217;s Barbican Centre for a session called The Dreamer&#8217;s Club. Fun and games begin at 7.30pm. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbican.org.uk\/artgallery\/event-detail.asp?ID=21182\">Details and tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We imagine things before we make them, from spacecraft to smartphones \u2013 and designers often turn artists&#8217; imaginings of the future into our everyday reality. So who&#8217;s in charge? I am. At least, I will be on 29 June &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1780\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,87],"tags":[434,164,165,232,86],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-scrapbook","tag-barbican","tag-design","tag-design-fiction","tag-new-scientist","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}