Desert Athleisure
Sportswear for a 40°C+ world. A Heated Studio design fiction that gives retailers and brands something tangible to argue about before the heat arrives. Landing page.
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Your organization navigates uncertain futures. I build prototypes and design fiction artifacts that turn research into decisions you can actually act on.
Through Heated Studio, I help organizations imagine and prototype new climate futures. At BPP Analytics & Design, we combine research, futures design, and experimentation to support high-stakes strategic choices. I also run workshops for design teams working with AI and futures methods.
Previously at Near Future Laboratory and Girardin & Nova, I’ve delivered design fiction projects for global clients across telecommunications, finance, defense, and mobility — turning abstract risk into artifacts teams can argue about.
I document futures design methods and experiments through Otros Futuros, a YouTube channel where speculative thinking becomes tangible practice. I also publish MARGIN.SIGNALS, an independent publication tracking early signals from cultural margins before they harden into mainstream trends.
Working on something that doesn’t have a clear future yet? Let’s talk (send email).
Projects
Adaptive Museums
Museums as climate infrastructure. A prototype exploring what happens when cultural institutions have to choose between their mission and their survival. Video introduction.
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A 100-year-old market, a city that keeps changing, a climate that doesn’t wait. Design fiction for San Telmo’s next chapter. Video introduction.
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Buenos Aires is aging. This design fiction reimagines what care looks like when the system built for the 20th century runs out of answers.
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Spain, near future. Climate refugees arriving faster than the institutions designed to receive them. A design fiction for the gap between policy and reality.
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Future of Food
Food as a futures problem. What climate, culture, and politics are doing to what we eat — and what comes next.
Environmental Crisis
Cities adapting to a climate that didn’t ask permission. Projects with students, institutions, and communities in Madrid and Buenos Aires.
- Inhabiting the future: climate design fiction with French spatial design master's students
- How I Prototyped an Alternative Future Climate with Design Fiction & GenAI
- How Madrid could adapt to extreme heat without losing its essence
- A speculative tour of San Telmo Market in a future Buenos Aires
- Collective trauma and community resilience after a climate disaster
Futures
Essays, workshops, and frameworks. How to think about what comes next when the patterns stop working.
- Designing futures from the brain drain: a workshop on brains that leave (and those that might return) [ES]
- No, the plane doesn’t have AI. And that opens up more interesting questions than the ones it tries to answer
- What if the State Designed Futures? A day in Buenos Aires revealed how speculative design, weak signals, and institutional fiction can become fundamental tools for public policy
- Viveza Criolla: A Design Fiction Lens on Strategic Adaptation
- A practical guide to changing how you see the everyday objects and spaces around you
- Teaching Artificial Intelligence to UX Designers: Notes from a masterclass given together with Fabien Girardin and Rohit Gupta for UX design students at UDIT [ES]
- Turning the Tide: How Argentina Can Transform Short-Term Survival into a Future-Ready Strategy
- Comment réimaginer le futur au quotidian? / Re-imagining everyday futures
- Prospective Methodology Based on Futures Design
- How to prepare for and anticipate contingencies by proposing narratives and artifacts through Futures Design
Editorial
Otros Futuros
Futures design, design fiction, speculative design.
I’m a futures designer. I build prototypes and speculative artifacts for organizations that have to make decisions without knowing what comes next.
Weak signals from the present. Futures thinking methods. Speculative experiments, live. The orientation is toward making things: show future, don’t tell future.
What I’ve learned, what I’ve applied, what I’m still testing. From practice.
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MARGIN.SIGNALS
An independent publication tracking weak signals from cultural margins — before they reshape your industry.
Release 001: SPECIALTY.COFFEE.MARGINS
What happens when coffee's margins challenge its center? This trendspotting fanzine explores master plant protocols, intentional defect fermentation, and decolonised cupping—patterns of hierarchy inversion you'll see elsewhere soon.
Limited prototype run. Access by direct request only.
Get a copy
Digital edition – €15
Physical edition (limited print) – €35
Dual bundle (digital + print) – €45
Request your copy at nicolas.bronzina@gmail.com or via @margin.signals on Instagram.
Also
Experiments and side projects outside client work.
playground mk-air
Experience live audio that exists only in the moment—no recording, no archive. Broadcasts that challenge your relationship with permanence and presence.
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A habitable sound space. Your cursor is your position—move toward a corner and a sound emerges, move away and it fades. The center breathes.
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Web-based music creation tool. 8-track drum sequencer, synthesizer, 4-slot looper with mic input.
View →Coffee.txt
Specialty coffee guide for Madrid.
View →Coffee Decoded
Practical guide to home coffee equipment.
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Experience
Research Coordinator & Lab Initiator
Coordinate collaborative experiments that help teams understand forced mundanity through ethnographic methods and design interventions—creating research frameworks you can apply to your own contexts.
Co-founder & Design Fiction Lead
Prepare your organization for climate futures through design fiction prototypes and strategic foresight—turning abstract climate risks into tangible strategies your team can test.
Managing Partner
Your organization needs intelligence that anticipates change. We combine sociological research with futures design to transform uncertainty into strategic clarity and actionable insights.
Design Researcher
Delivered design fiction projects that helped global telecoms, financial services, and defense organizations navigate sector transformation—methods now documented in published frameworks you can apply.
Design Researcher
Explored emerging tech futures for mobility sectors through design fiction—creating prototypes that helped organizations anticipate societal transformation before it arrived.
Teaching
ESAA La Martinière-Diderot (Lyon, Francia)
Guest Lecturer, DSAA Design Espace
Delivered a talk and hands-on activity on climate design fiction for spatial design master’s students visiting Madrid—introducing future mundane methods and diegetic artefacts, using Matadero as a living case study.
UDIT, Universidad de Diseño, Innovación y Tecnología (Madrid, España)
Guest Lecturer, Master’s in UX Design
Equipped UX designers with AI-enhanced design fiction methods through intensive masterclass with Fabien Girardin and Rohit Gupta—giving students practical tools to anticipate emerging technology impacts in their work.
Guest Workshop Co-facilitator
Guided design students to develop speculative urban futures for extreme heat scenarios—teaching weak signals analysis and climate foresight methods they can apply throughout their careers.
CESBA, Consejo Económico y Social de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Event Organizer & Opening Keynote
Presented frameworks for integrating futures design into public policy—proposing a Futures Anticipation Unit that helps government navigate uncertainty through institutional design fiction.
Education
Master’s Degree in User Experience for the Design of Digital Products and Services
Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Bachelor’s in Sociology
Institute for the Future (California, Estados Unidos)
Certified in Future Thinking & Forecasting
Core Expertise
I help organizations prepare for uncertain futures through design fiction and AI-enhanced prototyping. My methods—weak signals analysis, scenario planning, ethnographic research—transform abstract risks into tangible strategies.
Sectors: climate adaptation, urban resilience, mobility, defense, financial services, telecommunications.
Methods: design fiction, futures prototyping, speculative scenarios, workshop facilitation, ethnographic research, AI-enhanced foresight.