We were recently invited by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent to speculate, show evidence, and 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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

A rapid fire talk highlighting disruptive trends that facilitate technological empowerment, and what that means for the design profession.

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