In many cultures throughout time, monsters have served to warn and protect, influencing our behaviour and carrying moral force. Perhaps our distant ancestors believed not so much in the monster itself, but more in the wisdom it embodied, the monster as signal or insight. Monsters as guides in an uncertain and changing world. Can we… Continue reading Monstercode
Archives: Projects
The Future Health Security Landscape
Horizon scanning, scenarios and implications for the futures landscape of health security looking out over a 15-20 year horizon. The project scenarios generated a set of scenarios, a threat matrix, and a set of implications for the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), complementing UKHSA’s public health threat monitoring process. The report produced is for internal… Continue reading The Future Health Security Landscape
Drivers of Change for the Global Space System
Improving understanding of the global space system through a domains-based analysis of implications for the European space sector.
LU375 – Futures of Higher Education
LU375 is a special jubilee edition of Lund University Magazine (LUM) for 2041. It is an exploration of possible futures for Lund University. Who might the researchers, teachers and other staff at Lund University be? And what might they be working on? Lund University Magazine is focused mainly on interviews with staff and researchers, highlighting… Continue reading LU375 – Futures of Higher Education
Marine Zoönomy
A public scenario implications workshop series investigating marine permaculture as a (re)generative transition strategy for repurposing obsolete marine fossil-fuel infrastructure.
Rough Planet – Notterdam 2045
In a rare cross-over between my futures practice and that as a collage-artist, I was commissioned to create illustrative collages for the REINVENT project’s Rough Planet Guide to Notterdam, a tourist guide to an imagined coastal city in a decarbonised Europe circa 2045. The Rough Planet Guide declines to answer the question of “how do… Continue reading Rough Planet – Notterdam 2045
Training For The Future – Extraterritorial Zoöperations
Extraterritorial Zoöperations is an immersive speculative narrative experience exploring conflicts arising as a more-than-human community attempts to survive op the open sea in the late 21st century. The experience is designed to work with up to 50 participants, and consists of workshop sessions that are built into an overarching storyline, tasking participants with resolving conflicts… Continue reading Training For The Future – Extraterritorial Zoöperations
Next Thing You Know
An anthology of Internet-of-Things-Fiction, produced for Thingscon 2016. Dubbed “Speculative Frictions in the Plausible Near-now”, the stories were drafted during a writing workshop on the first day of the conference, edited overnight, and distributed in newspaper format at the conference the next day. Download Next Thing You Know here Workshop co-facilitated by Susan Cox-Smith of ChangeistIllustrations by Rachel… Continue reading Next Thing You Know