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.

Our Friends Electric is a design fiction project 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 final film explores our developing relationship with voice activated AI assistants, and the future potential of these relationships through three fictional devices.

Through a series of ongoing installations, films and publications, the project aims to give a glimpse into a near-future city co-habit with ‘intelligent’ semi autonomous, networked, flying machines.

Thomas, aged 70, lives on his own after his wife died last year. His children send him smart devices to track and monitor his diet, health and sleep from a distance. But Thomas has always been fiercely independent, happy to live in an organised mess. He struggles with the order and rules imposed on him by the objects that are meant to make his life easier. In a world where ’smart objects’ will increasingly be used to provide care at a distance, how will we live with these uninvited guests? 

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.

Evidences from a fictional courtcase Dynamic Genetics versus Mann help imagine some of the economic and political implications of synthetic biology and gene therapy.

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.

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.

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.