I use speculation as a method for thinking beyond the futures that dominant institutions, infrastructures, and political imaginaries make appear inevitable.
Speculation is not prediction, fantasy, or escape. I use it as a practical and political method for questioning hegemonic discourses, interrupting path dependency, and opening space for more preferable futures to be imagined, debated, and worked toward.
Through workshops, scenarios, prompts, public conversations, exhibitions, and collaborative exercises, I help groups examine the assumptions shaping the present and ask what other futures might be possible.
Speculative Worlds Research Collective
I am co-founder of the Speculative Worlds Research Collective, which works at the intersection of creative methods, artistic practice, and worldbuilding. The collective brings together interdisciplinary research, public-facing events, and experimental forms of inquiry into politics, environment, and futures. We use speculation as a method for thinking beyond the futures that dominant institutions, infrastructures, and political imaginaries make appear inevitable.
2026
MAKING THINGS HUMAN: a two day participatory methods café
- Funded by UCL Social and Historical Sciences (£1000)
2025
> SPECULATIVE WORLDS PRESENTS BEYOND BORDERS, BEYOND EARTH 2025-2035 sociopolitical imaginaries of outer space
> SPECULATIVE WORLDS SUMMER LAB 2025 what is speculation? symposium
- Funded by UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (£1400)
> REIMAGINING ANTHROPOCENE FUTURES making session ii off earth futures
> REIMAGINING ANTHROPOCENE FUTURES making session i posthuman landscapes
> REIMAGINING ANTHROPOCENE FUTURES evening exhibition
- Funded by UCL Anthropocene (£1000)
2024
> SPECULATIVE WORLDS SUMMER LAB 2024 exploring sensorial landscapes and walking
- Funded by UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (£1300)
> SPECULATIVE WORLDS PRESENTS EXPLORING WALKING PRACTICE FOR RESEARCHERS
> CAFÉ SPECULATIF conversations around film
- Funded by UCL Doctoral School Network Fund (£1000)
2023
2023
SPECULATIVE WORLDS SUMMER LAB 2023 navigating the omnishambles
- Funded by UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (£1500)
2023
SPECULATIVE WORLDS SUMMER LAB 2022 interacting with ideas, pasts, and futures
- Funded by UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (£1500)