Human and Data-Driven Design Fictions: Entering the Near-Future Zone

Imagine a future where the physical and digital become seamlessly intertwined producing a strange new hybrid landscape. Where technologies and data availability have the potential for virtually unbounded possibilities and participants are involved in interdisciplinary collaboration for designing future hybrid physical/virtual environments. New challenging scenarios like smart homes, smart cities, humanoid robots, and autonomous vehicles are the closest frontier rendering a vision of near-future technologies, i.e. Physical-Cyber Environments (P-CE) [6].