The designer's films offer a glimpse into a nightmarish sci-fi future in which every surface, appliance and inch of peripheral vision fizzes with data – an onslaught that might be just a couple of years away. Designers, he says, must shape this world – or be shaped by it

Watch the designer's films that depict a future in which a virtual layer of data is a continual presence in our lives

From smart cities to mass surveillance, our December issue – out on 1 November – looks at the complex relationship between democracy and big data