Superflux were commissioned by Policy Lab and Defra Futures to consider the question “How can we transform what the freshwater system looks like, 20 years from now and beyond?”. The result: the first iteration of our studio’s ongoing speculations into the possibility of Ecological AI.

A collection of works blending critical foresight with speculative and experiential design approaches to imagine safer futures

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

Exploring near future worlds around AI and climate change.

New technologies never function as promised: there are always glitches and unintended consequences. ‘Better Care’ optimistically reimagines care systems for a technologically enabled but frictional future.

‘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.

Stark Choices is an experiential simulation of life in 2030, where certain current projections around the future of work and automation have been realised.

An speculative design intervention for International Development futures.