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.

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.

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.

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.

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.