Interview: Maja Grakalić
Maja Grakalić, an interdisciplinary design practitioner and researcher from Croatia based in London: “you can only change the system from within”.
Practice
Interview: Nik Baerten
Nik Baerten, co-founder of the Antwerp-based foresight and design studio Pantopicon: “sometimes the speculative simply gives birth to the real.”
Interview: Yin Aiwen
Yin Aiwen, designer, researcher, theorist and strategist teaching at AKV | St. Joost: “design is always obligated to communicate with the present”.
Interview: Design Friction
Léa, Estelle and Bastien from France based design practice Design Friction: “Practising this type of design is always political”.
Interview: Hyphen-Labs
Carmen and Ece from Hyphen-Labs, an international collective working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future: “Speculative Design moves away from a ‘one size fits all’ design school model.”
Interview: Petra Lilja
Swedish industrial designer and curator: “designers need to start dealing with other temporalities than those of shortsightedness linked to over-consumerism”.
Interview: Theo Ploeg
Design and media sociologist from Heerlen: “Speculative Design should be able to translate possible futures to the now”.
Interview: FoAM
Maja Kuzmanovic and Nik Gaffney, founders of the transdisciplinary network FoAM: “Design can provide ways to change, circumvent or adapt an unsustainable status quo.”
Interview: Fara Peluso
Italian artist/designer based in Berlin: “Speculative Design is a great learning tool which analyses and studies our society”.
Interview: automato.farm
International design and research group based in Shanghai: “we never really labelled our work “speculative”, but probably it partially is.”
Interview: circumflex.studio
Speculative Design practitioners – Michaela and Konstantin from Basel-based circumflex.studio: “Speculative Design should be an informed projection that brings into question the reality we ground this projection on.
Interview: Tina Gorjanc
Speculative Design practitioners – Tina Gorjanc (Slovenia/UK): Investigating the consumer vs. citizen paradox present in each individual.
Interview: Susana Soares
Speculative Design practitioners – Susana Soares (Portugal/UK): Technologically Fluent Citizen, towards a critical technological fluency via speculative practice.
Interview: The Constitute
Speculative Design practitioners – The Constitute (Germany): The workshop is still the centre of the our studio.
Interview: Markéta Dolejšová
Speculative Design practitioners – Markéta Dolejšová: Our aim is to shift the “Bohemian Speculative Design” from its current non-quite-yet state towards a real thing.
Interview: Nonhuman Nonsense
Speculative Design practitioners – Nonhuman Nonsense: Working in the embryonic stages of system transformation, in the realm of social dreaming and world-making.
Interview: Andrew Friend and Sitraka Rakotoniaina
Speculative Design practitioners – Andrew Friend and Sitraka Rakotoniaina (London): Exploring ways to democratise the narratives that make up tomorrow’s visions.
Interview: Time’s Up – Laboratory for the Construction of Experimental Situations
A series of interviews with Speculative Design practitioners: Time’s Up, Austria.
