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A foresight and speculative design project reimagining regenerative ambient tech futures.

Omidyar Network
10 MIN. READ

Refuge for Resurgence at La Biennale Di Venezia 2021

'Refuge for Resurgence', a multispecies banquet, was presented at the Biennale Architettura, La Biennale Di Venezia 2021, from 22nd May to 21st November.

La Biennale Di Venezia 2021
8 MIN. READ

Invocation For Hope at the Vienna Biennale 2021

In a new, large-scale immersive installation for the Vienna Biennale 2021, Superflux present a resurgent forest born from the ashes of humanity’s hubris.

12 MIN. READ

Mitigation of Shock (Singapore)

The second iteration of our ongoing project: Mitigation of Shock. Mitigation of Shock (Singapore) transports visitors to an apartment in the second half of the 21st century and allows them to experience how we might live in a world transformed by global warming.

ArtScience Museum, Singapore
12 MIN. READ

Deepmind

Researching and developing alternate ways of thinking about AI Systems.

Deepmind
1 MIN. READ

Google AI

Exploring near future worlds around AI and climate change.

Google AI
1 MIN. READ

Mitigation of Shock (London)

Set in London around 2050, Mitigation of Shock is a design experiment in living with climate change induced food insecurity.

SUNCORP, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
10 MIN. READ

Better Care

Optimistically reimagining care systems for a technologically enabled but frictional future.

DotEveryone
5 MIN. READ

Trigger Warning

'Trigger Warning' is a fast-paced journey through a city of memes. Switching between various first-person perspectives, the film embodies the current culture clashes bubbling away beneath the surface of the city.

MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
8 MIN. READ

STARK CHOICES

Stark Choices is an experiential simulation of life in 2030, where certain current projections around the future of work and automation have been realised. The simulation was presented to educators, policy and decision-makers at GESF2018.

VARKEY FOUNDATION
8 MIN. READ

Future(s) of Power – Algorithmic Power

The third event in our 'Future(s) of Power series: an experiment using the method of sortition for a Citizens Assembly on Algorithmic Power.

SOMERSET HOUSE STUDIOS
7 MIN. READ

THE FUTURE STARTS HERE

A series of films that help visitors comprehend the contexts and consequences of new technologies, products and systems.

Produced for the V&A's landmark show 'The Future Starts Here'

OFFICE OF POLITICAL INNOVATION, VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
5 MIN. READ

MANTIS SYSTEMS

An organisational speculative design intervention for the International Development sector.

BOND, UNDP, NESTA
8 MIN. READ

WHY WE NEED TO IMAGINE DIFFERENT FUTURES: TED TALK

Video and Transcript of Anab Jain's TED Talk (2017)

EVIDENCING HUMANITARIAN FUTURES

We were recently invited by the International Federation of Red Cross to speculate, show evidence, and then provoke their conference attendees to anticipate looming challenges and potentialities. We wanted to understand: What challenges might face the humanitarian and development sector in the near future?

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS
7 MIN. READ

OUR FRIENDS ELECTRIC

Our Friends Electric is a short film exploring alternate forms and interactions for voice AI. The project was commissioned by Michelle Thorne and Jon Rogers from Mozilla’s Open IoT Studio. The film explores our developing relationship with voice activated AI assistants, and the future potential of these relationships through three fictional devices.

MOZILLA FOUNDATION
4 MIN. READ

HOW WILL WE WORK?

We are delighted to be able to share How Will We Work? a new exhibition at the Angewandte Innovation Lab in Vienna. The show has been co-curated by Anab and Gerald Bast, President of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. The exhibition is part of the 2017 Vienna Biennale organised by the MAK which investigates how robots and “work” will shape our futures.

VIENNA BIENNALE 2017
5 MIN. READ

THE FUTURE ENERGY LAB

The UAE Ministry of Energy and the Prime Minister’s Office invited us to help them develop a mechanism to experience numerous possible futures around energy, and to stress test the opportunities and broader systemic consequences of each future with Cabinet Ministers and key decision makers. The ambition was that such collaborative futuring activity would help inform the country’s energy policy all the way till 2050.

UAE MINISTRY OF ENERGY AND THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE
5 MIN. READ

THE POWER OF 8: ENCOURAGING COLLABORATIVE DIY FUTURES

This paper describes the strategies we used in our Power of 8 project — including maps, montage and storytelling — to develop concepts, visualise proposals and materialise ‘future artefacts’ during the project.

1 MIN. READ

NEW COMPANIONS

This article draws on advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics to question the orthodoxy of artificial Companions research.

1 MIN. READ

SONG OF THE MACHINE CASE STUDY

Song of the Machine project as case study for exploring design ethnography practices.

1 MIN. READ

MACHINE NETWORKS

An editorial about Machine networks alongside many other brilliant folks.

1 MIN. READ

DYNAMIC GENETICS VS MANN ESSAY

This essay was written for our project ‘Dynamic Genetics v Mann’ , exploring the future of synthetic biology.

1 MIN. READ

DESIGN FUTURESCAPING

Our short essay describes our design futurescaping tools and methods, grounded in examples from our projects 'Little Brinkland' and 'Power of 8'.

1 MIN. READ

TOWARDS AN EQUITABLE CITY

This essay examines the conditions required to help Eindhoven develop an alternative, social version of a smart city, including participatory design methods.

1 MIN. READ

OWNING THE SKY

This article discusses the growing interest in drones and the challenges around regulations, cities, and infrastructure.

1 MIN. READ

SHIFTING THE BALANCE: DESIGN FOR EQUITABLE CITIES

In this essay, we propose five citizen co-design strategies for enabling systemic change in governance processes.

5 MIN. READ

LEARNING TO PLAY WITH TOMORROW

Some of our early work on 'Design Futurescaping' at LIFT, Geneva, 2009.

1 MIN. READ

THE FUTURE OF GENOMICS

A talk about the future of personal genomics, nationalised healthcare, synthetic biology and genetic crimes.

2 MIN. READ

SUPERFLUX TALK @FABRICA

1 MIN. READ

STAYING WITH THE TROUBLE

A talk exploring cultural turbulence, technological acceleration and increasing complexity, in the context of our ongoing work.

1 MIN. READ

PROJECT TALOS

A commission by Samsung to develop concepts and experience prototypes for a new range of smart products set for a 2016 release.

Samsung UK
1 MIN. READ

LITTLE BRINKLAND

Produced in concert with the RCA's Helen Hamlyn Centre, Little Brinkland was a spatial exploration of the future of work.

Helen Hamlyn Centre, Colebrook Bosson Saunders
5 MIN. READ

CITIES UNLOCKED

A future visioning project to identify innovation opportunities for integrated city systems which would lead to inclusive, richer urban experiences for partially sighted people and their families.

Future Cities Catapult
7 MIN. READ

SKETCH-A-MOVE

A new way of playing with toy cars, in which the user determines the journey by drawing a path on the car's roof.

Mattel Hotwheels Design Competition, RCA
3 MIN. READ

RETHINKING MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

Investigating the possibilities for 'smart' products that could live alongside us, sharing in the minutiae our everyday life.

Socio-Digital Systems Microsoft Research, Cambridge
4 MIN. READ

ARK-INC

Positioned as a radically alternative investment company, ARK-INC is a superfiction; the 'conceptual container' for a series of projects about climate change and societal fragility.

5 MIN. READ

DRONE AVIARY

The Drone Aviary - an R&D project from The Superflux Lab - is an investigation of the social, political and cultural potential of drone technology as it enters civil space.

ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND
5 MIN. READ

LILORANN

For Project LiloRann ('Green Desert'), we are devising a set of toolkits that will create 'positive tipping points' to combat environmental degradation in the deserts of North India.

6 MIN. READ

YELLOW CHAIR STORIES

Yellow Chair Stories was an experiment in service design, demonstrating how identity and personal space can be affected by interminglings of the physical and the virtual.

5 MIN. READ

DESIGN FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

We worked with our networked partners to create the strategy and design of a series of touch-points for a more sustainable Verbier and Val de Bagnes, Switzerland.

The Prince's Foundation, Verbier GPS
4 MIN. READ

PIRATES OF THE DANUBE

In April 2011, we ran a design workshop at Kitchen Budapest, challenging participants to imagine and engage with deviant economies on the River Danube.

Kitchen Budapest
5 MIN. READ

INTERNET OF THINGS ACADEMY

This project explores the potential of building IoTA: An open, educational internet-of-things platform to encourage creativity, collaboration and technological literacy.

Sony
6 MIN. READ

MUSEUM OF FUTURE GOVERNMENT SERVICES

The Museum of Future Government Services, UAE, is an interactive design futures exhibition, conceived and developed in partnership with Tellart, Fabrica, IFTF and Near Future Laboratory.

PMO, Government of UAE
1 MIN. READ

FAILED STATES

A futurescaping workshop challenging design students to probe notions of borders, territories, and the fragile, increasingly precarious relationship between people and their governments.

Head, Geneva
6 MIN. READ

POWER OF 8

A collaborative project bringing together eight strangers to imagine optimistic, collective expressions of our futures, today.

Arts Council England, Watermans Gallery
6 MIN. READ

SYNBIO TAROT READING

The Synbio tarot card reading is a workshop tool designed to help designers and scientists explore the social, economic and political implications of synthetic biology.

Studiolab Europe, Science Gallery Dublin
2 MIN. READ

DESIGN FOR THE NEW NORMAL

"Maintain the status quo, don’t change too much. Here and now is safe. Over there, in the future? Well, there be dragons."

7 MIN. READ

VALLEY OF THE MEATPUPPETS

The Valley of the Meatpuppets is an ethereal space where people, agents, thingbots, action heroes and big dogs coexist.

7 MIN. READ

HOW WILL WE LIVE?

This talk explores the deep disconnection between the 'future' and how it manifests in our everyday lives.

NEXT'15
1 MIN. READ

SONG OF THE MACHINE

Song of the Machine explores the possibilities of this new, modified vision, where wearers adjust for a reduced resolution by tuning into streams of information and electromagnetic vistas, all inaccessible to the ‘normally’ sighted.

SCIENCE GALLERY AND TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN
4 MIN. READ

ROCKETS OF INDIA

A talk that outlines the deep connections between outer space programs, cultural imperialism, imagination and democratic futures.

WEBSTOCK'16
1 MIN. READ

5TH DIMENSIONAL CAMERA

Blending physics and speculative design, the 5th Dimensional Camera translates Everett's 'Many Worlds' theory of quantum mechanics into a tangible prototype.

EPSRC, RCA DESIGN INTERACTIONS, NESTA
4 MIN. READ

BUGGYAIR

BuggyAir is an accurate mobile sensing kit that helps parents understand their children's exposure to air pollution.

WINNER, IOT LAUNCHPAD COMPETITION, INNOVATE UK
6 MIN. READ

MUTO LABS

Mūtō Labs investigates the effect of new technologies on the future of the finance and asset management industries.

INFORMA & FUNDFORUM INTERNATIONAL
5 MIN. READ

UNINVITED GUESTS

Uninvited Guests is a short film that explores the frictions between an elderly man and his smart home.

THINGTANK
5 MIN. READ

MANGALA FOR ALL

An ethnographic project on the streets of Ahmedabad, India, that begins to reveal a more complex and fine-grained understanding of people’s relationship with Space Programmes.

8 MIN. READ

OPEN INFORMANT

Open Informant is a wearable badge with an e-ink display that attempts to confront the unsettling realities of surveillance in a networked age.

WEARABLE FUTURES, RAVENSBOURNE
4 MIN. READ

DYNAMIC GENETICS VS. MANN

Evidences from a fictional court case help imagine some of the economic and political implications of synthetic biology and gene therapy.

BLUEPRINTS FOR UNKNOWN DESIGN INTERACTIONS, STUDIOLAB, EU
8 MIN. READ

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