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Weekly podcast on the future of text from https://futuretextlab.info
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13 April '26
This session wove together three interconnected threads: the design philosophy behind generative writing tools (specifically Author), the emerging framework of “core and contextual” writing spaces as…
6 April '26
The 6 April 2026 session of the Future Text Lab was a wide-ranging exploration of what spatial knowledge nodes should look like, feel like, and be used for in XR environments. Grounded in Frode…
The Future of Text Symposium '26
This year's Symposium will be on the 14th of September, returning to London College of Communication. 'The Future of Augmented Thought"
S3E5 30 March '26
This session brought together the Future Text Lab community to examine the cognitive science underpinning spatial text interfaces and to develop a practical design philosophy for combining…
S3E4 23 March '26
The 23 March 2026 session of the Future Text Lab gathered Frode Hegland, Tom Haymes, Brandel Zachernuk, and Peter Dimitrious for a wide-ranging discussion centred on the nature of knowledge…
S3E3 16 March '26
This session of the Future Text Lab community centered on what host Frode Hegland called the “movement of knowledge” — the challenge of transporting and reshaping personal and scholarly knowledge…
S3E2 9 March '26
This session centered on annotation as a practice and a design challenge, weaving together empirical research findings, philosophical reflections on meaning-making, and speculative design ideas for…
S3E1 2 March '26
The primary thread was the relationship between XR interfaces and knowledge work, examined through two contrasting live demonstrations. Frode Hegland showed his Author system running in a headset,…
S2E4 23 February '26
The primary focus was Frode Hegland’s presentation of two slides posing a specific design question: when displaying a citation or quote as a node in XR, what should be shown in its closed state…
S2E3 16 February '26
This session ranged across the conceptual and practical challenges of making text spatial, from live demos of the Author app running on Apple Vision Pro to a sustained debate about what document…
S2E2 9 February '26
The session ranged across the lived experience of working with text and knowledge artifacts in XR, the challenge of representing time in spatial environments, the emerging gestural grammar…
S2E1 2 February '26
The session explored spatial authoring and XR-based knowledge environments, with Frode demonstrating a 3D knowledge map prototype derived from meeting transcripts and AI-generated glossaries,…
S1E4 26 January '26
The session explored how XR might transform reading, annotation, and meeting memory by making text spatial, embodied, and navigable, while also debating how future records of intellectual work could…
S1E3 19 January '26
This session explored whether and how XR environments can meaningfully augment how people read, understand, and relate to complex knowledge, using a concrete but deliberately constrained experiment:…
S1E2 12 January '26
The session explored how a single written letter could be transformed into a spatial XR experience to demonstrate the future of text, focusing on how documents, citations, and concepts can become…
S1E1 5 January '26
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