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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

An editorial about Machine networks alongside many other brilliant folks.