Speculative Futures

‘[It] and Ecology’ poem on A.I.

This ‘found poem’ is my response to the event, AI and Ecology. Each line of this 42 line poem is a quote from a presentation or discussions held during the workshop.

Fair Trade Energy

What could Fair Trade Energy look like? What might that even mean? As part of my ongoing speculative fabulation with Dawn Nafus, we have been exploring this concept alongside questions of federation, permacomputing

‘From Flatlands to Livable Futures’

‘From Flatlands to Livable Futures: Unflattening carbon metrics in the energy and data industries’ is now out in the Journal of Big Data and Society, and is open access

‘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,

Data Crematoria at 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.

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