Futures & Speculation

This pillar ventures into the territory of what might be. Through speculative design, science fiction prototyping, and critical imagination, we explore possible futures shaped by artificial intelligence.

Practitioners like Anab Jain of Superflux, Benjamin Bratton, and Liam Young use design fiction to make abstract technological futures tangible and debatable. Their work doesn’t predict—it provokes. By rendering possible worlds visible, they invite us to ask: Which futures do we want to build? Which should we resist? And how do we maintain agency in a world increasingly shaped by algorithmic systems?