Speculative Futures

‘From Flatlands to Livable Futures’

‘From Flatlands to Livable Futures’ is now out in the Journal of Big Data and Society, and is open access. Julia Velkova and I somehow managed to pack in our multitude of insights

‘Stormpunk Islands’ in Print

My short story ‘Stormpunk Islands’ is now in print from MIT Press! ‘Climate Imagination: Dispatches from Hopeful Futures’ is the printed version of the open access

Green tinted beach with the text 'solarpunk'.

‘Solarpunk’ is not for defining

I was invited to define a key term for climate change and chose ‘Solarpunk‘–and then wrote my entry as a science fiction short story.

Woman talking animatedly to someone offscreen. With handwritten text overlay saying, "I make speculative futures from empirical evidence- futures that are sustainable and liveable. What could we do together?"

Welcome. This is what I do.

Welcome to my portfolio. Take a look around. See what inspires. I work as a creative consultant and as a professor in science & technology studies. Maybe we could work together?

Booklet cover of a grey moody forest in the mist with the title 'Northdark, a narrative role playing game of megabytes versus megawatts'.

Northdark Role-Playing Game

Northdark is a narrative role-playing game for 1-2 players set in a Nordic data center, when the lights have gone out.

White cover of a booklet titled 'Speculative Futures, World Intellectual Property Organisation'

Speculative Futures Writing Workshop

One day ‘Speculative Futures’ Writing Workshop for UN WIPO, World Intellectual Property Organisation, in Geneva, which was organised as part

Origami folded paper game that has been illustrated. Paper behind with a title reads 'Folding Paper Game'

Unflattening Folding Paper Game

Unflattening, the folding paper game, was created by Julia Velkova and myself as part of the Megabytes versus Megawatts project,

Book cover in bright illustrative bands and the title 'The Climate Action Almanac'. The cover is against a painting of a rich green forest background.

‘Stormpunk Islands’ Climate Fiction

‘Stormpunk islands’ is a speculative climate fiction short story, published online in The Climate Action Almanac by MIT Press along

World Futures Day

In the Ségur Hall, at the United Nations Headquarters in Paris, I told the story of an island built to cremate data, to give digital artifacts a good death.

Woman in a padded jacket reaching out to touch a standing stone in a field.

Short Film on EVs ‘At the End of the Earth’

AudiTV came to Orkney to talk with me and others about Electric Vehicles, island innovation, and how we produce over

Graphic illustration in blue and green of abstract technical symbols, titled 'Environment Variables'

Environment Variables Podcast

Dawn Nafus from Intel and myself had a fantastic time in conversation with Chris Adams from the Green Software Foundation.

Ink blue, solarised photo of an old airship with the title 'MoonFlyer, a solarpunk story of energy data governance' by Laura Watts.

‘Moonflyer’ Tide Powered Airship

Moonflyer was a ‘choose your own adventure future’ performance at EASST Madrid 2022. It invited the audience to participate in