DESIGNING futures: PONDERING & PROVOKING
Interdisciplinary projects integrating strategic tools like weak signals, future forecasting, scenario planning, roadmapping, and backcasting, with critical methods such as speculative design, design fiction, and future artefacts.
Provocative Objects: London, 2050
April 2025's Provocative Places and Objects blog published by the Design History society narrates landscapes of four alternative futures for mobility in London by 2050.
The Layers of Tomorrow
An essay exploring how we might navigate an unpredictable world—where climate breakdown, inequality, and collapsing systems expose the limits of human-centred design.
The Future of Private Tutoring
Industry Expeditions for MuirWood & Co to explore the future of industries. A deep dive into the world of private tutoring in the UK- What's the present, and the future?
The Climate Creatives Challenge: #5: Compendium
The Braemar Chronicle: Echoes of a Warming World was featured as a 'shortlisted entry' in The Climate Creatives Challenge's publication, 'Heatwaves'.
DISPATCHES
Symbiotic Progress: a Vision for the Future of Propulsion
Presenting a whole-systems perspective on planning for a preferable future of propulsion at the FPC25's as a part of the 'Sustainability and Circular Economy' panel.
Innovating with Food Systems
Guest Lecturing at Royal College of Art's Design Futures cohort of '25 about applying strategic design amidst designing innovation and entrepreneurship for adaptive decision-making.
Biofutures in Flux @ WAD?24
Presenting my paper 'Biofutures in Flux', co-authored with Taline Frantz, for What's Around Design 2024's 'Speculative Biofutures' track.
Mobility Futures @ Informing Choices Mini Pod
Joining Steve Wells as we explore 'Visions for the Future of Mobility' on his Informing Choices mini pod, diving into how technology, society, and sustainability intersect to shape the future.
Five for 25 – Hopes and Fears for 2025
Talking to Steve Wells and four other visionary futurists to explore what might lie ahead in 2025. In a world brimming with complexity and uncertainty.
The Future of Beverages on the Informing Choices Mini Pod
Steve Wells and I explore The Future of Beverages; the critical drivers of change, technological innovations, and the changing experience of consuming beverages in this episode of the Informing Choices Mini Pod.
BROADCASTS
'S.A.I.L.' @ Milan Design Week
S.A.I.L. was showcased at the Milan Design Week 2024
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The Health Ledger: Showcased at SHIFT Symposium
A poster showcasing 'The Health Ledger'- a future artefact that explores the fragility of consent and care in AI-led health systems.
Four Futures Artefacts: Showcased at RCA2024
The 4 Future Artefacts derived from the Mobility 2050 research report- each illustrating the landscape of an envisioned future scenario- as displayed at RCA2024
DISPLAYS