Radha has a background in architecture, narrative environments, and strategic foresight — and loves teaching, writing, speaking, and learning about any and all bits related. Radha currently leads the foresight practice at Autodesk and teaches as part-time faculty on the MFA Transdisciplinary Design program at The New School (Parsons).

Alice is a multidisciplinary artist, activist and undergraduate architecture and urban design student. She works with post-anthropocentric and technopolitical discussions, interweaving digital, physical, and biological systems in radical cartographies, designs, and speculative scenarios applying more-than-human perspectives.

Fred is a Berlin based critical designer who’s work explores how we engage with technology and each other.

Nella is a designer, researcher and cyberwitch studying systems of human interaction, anthropological futures and socio-technical imaginaries. Her focus lies in creating poetic, introspective and ritualistic work, which touches upon the themes of faith, impermanence, and the infinite search for a sense of self.

Jocelyn is the founder, showrunner, and design lead of The Time Travel Agency. She is an artist and designer interested in sociotechnical artifacts, distributed technologies, interactive fiction, and narrative design. Jocelyn has in-depth knowledge of co-creative methods, multistakeholder governance, and lean and innovation processes within the creative, coworking, and software industries.

Martina is a multi-disciplinary designer based in London. Her work critically engages with social, cultural, and political issues. She is currently analysing the implications of outer space exploration in relation to communication geography, nationhood, and power structures.

Viraj is a designer, technologist, and futurist, who produces design outputs and fiction with great affinity towards our technological futures. His work explores physical-digital interactions, speculative design and futures, and emerging technology, and has received several international accolades. He works at Fjord, London and is also a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art.

Shruthi a design master’s student from India, studying in Delft. She is a designer and a researcher. “I enjoy exploring the spaces of AI, technology, and design from a socio-economic lens. In my current work, I am trying to focus on tangible device interactions situated in the future.”

Mansi is founder of FutureTense Inc. “My speculative design and foresight practice is centered around using cultural understanding and insights to build strategy. I focus a lot of my energy on experimentation to find new ways of using foresight, research and design in more culturally forward ways.”

Tabea is a writer, researcher and design practitioner. She recently graduated from the Master’s programme Communication in Social and Economic Contexts at the Berlin University of the Arts with a thesis on Speculative Feminist Design and Feminist Campaign Fiction. Currently, she works for a communication agency in Berlin.

Pranshu says “I am a creative technologist and a playful futurist. As a designer and researcher, my interest lies in the areas of technology and creative, non-intrusive applications, focusing on the critical discussion of technology and its impact on society. Actively involved in combining physical computing tools with storytelling methods.”

Agnes says “I am a writer, researcher, and digital product strategist with a focus on the environment. Currently, I build products for people to visualize our changing environment with satellite imagery at Planet Labs. My happy place is mapping out systems and finding patterns and I’m excited to explore biopunk futures.”

Theo, a design sociologist and speculative accelerationist. Co-lead of Speculative Futures Amsterdam. and founder of Hyperspace studio. Using speculative design to explore the accelerating world and to tackle macro challenges.

Saphia - “Having recently graduated from Greenwich university for my MArch, I have progressed to a new role at Haptic Architects and currently working on several National and London based projects. Throughout it all I have maintained my curiosity to producing projects via a craft and design led approach that subvert historical themes to produce a critique on contemporary issues.”

Dhruv: “I am a professor of design and co founder of A4.Achaar, a collective that forays into discursive design methods and futures thinking through participatory social research, and have been associated with design since 2010 when I started my graduate studies in crafts, culture and design.”

Hannah: “I am a German - Irish designer, researcher and maker graduating from the Glasgow School of Art’s ‘product’ design [Master of European Design pathway] course this summer.

Dominika is a London based critical designer with experience in designing for services, public sector and place-based strategies. She's a co-founder of Still Not Quite, a critical research studio engaging with communities to work on visions for participatory futures. In her practice she's interested in exploring in the impact of possible on the present, and using speculations to aid resilience and make marginalised voices heard.

Grace is a designer living in New York City, currently pursuing an MFA in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons. Her practice is a unique synthesis of participatory futures, strategic design, design-led research, nonviolent communication, and graphic design. Through her work, she explores the intersection between the future, feelings, the planet, and design.

Santini spends most of his time running Andthen, a team of designers that do research — mostly about what the future could or should look like. Here, he works with organisations in the early stages of creating new things (from new products to new jobs). He also sometimes teaches at the Glasgow School of Art and hosts the Speculative Futures Glasgow chapter.

Austin is an interdisciplinary marketing strategist perpetually looking to understand the “why” in order to speculate on preferable futures. He is dedicated to nurturing sincere relationships and leading with compassion to transform how we engage with each other.

Ania is an independent Rotterdam-based researcher, curator, and writer. She is a co-founder and director of research and publishing platform Amateur Cities. In her work, Ania focuses on the socio-cultural dimension of spatial practices. Before starting an independent career, Ania worked as a researcher and design teacher at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture (The Why Factory) as well as an architect at MVRDV, Powerhouse Company, and SVESMI.

Nikola is an intern architect and multi-media artist. He graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Architectural Studies, and from the Architectural Association with a Master of Architecture. He has collaborated with artists working in contemporary sculpture, experimental architecture, and photography/film.

Phil is a design leader based in San Francisco, CA and has been a practicing designer for over 20 years. He most recently served as an Experience Design Director at McKinsey & Company. He is also the president and founder of the Design Futures Initiative which organizes the international Speculative Futures meetups and the PRIMER conference in the US and Europe.

Nina is a design strategist and futurist passionate about creating positively impactful, regenerative, inclusive and scalable design interventions that address the climate crisis and place impacted communities at the heart of the process. Her experiences range from deploying design in the governance sector to the autonomous technology and civic sphere.

Olivier is a post-disciplinary designer navigating the spaces between presents, futures, fictions, and realities. At RMIT University School of Design, his research addresses climate resilience and social innovation in more-than-human and circular heterotopias. Before joining RMIT, Ollie spent 10 years in industry, working with start-ups, not-for-profits, governments, and blue-chip companies. He was a design lead at Fjord Design and Innovation, the founder and creative director of future ensemble studio, and the co-founder of the Melbourne Chapter of The Design Futures Initiative.

Lauren is a graduate of Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her work focuses on research and critical engagement with sustainability, technology, and storytelling. Her work and writing has been published by Plurality U+ and Onomatopee, and most recently was the recipient of the DESIS Radical Sustainability Award.

James is an innovation director at The Sound, a consumer exploration and product innovation agency. He is also the founder of Dreaming Collective, an art and research studio dedicated to the development of alternative modes of design thinking in the pursuit of liberatory imagination. His methods rely on conversation and intimacy with strangers, family members, and other artists through interviews, micro-commissions, and collaborative social programming.

Rosa says “I am a material innovator, spatial designer, and researcher raised in Aotearoa, now based in England. Having graduated last year, I now work at a Biophilic Design studio within their research team. I split my time between working on material futures and collaborating with my research collective on diversifying spatial education.”

Sharp & Sour is a multidisciplinary design studio focused on the futures of food - Innovation through speculative food design for food brands in its broader approach (from kitchen appliances companies to fruits importers/exporters, food designers, organisations...) self-initiated research and projects and artistic exhibitions / installations.

For Zara, design is more than projects and outcomes – design must also focus on the context a project resides in. Her work seeks to disrupt the preconceived, systemic notions which underlie our everyday lives.

LMNO is a collision of wisdom produced through the bodies of three shapeshifters on the earthly realm who manifest as Ankita Trivedi, Ishita Jain and Thomas Mical.

Ankita Trivedi is a futurist and design academic with an expertise in speculative narrative environments. Ishita Jain is an artist-scholar and architectural historian working on affective learning environments and mytho-poetic theatre. Thomas Mical is a process philosopher working on transdisciplinary design research for re-enchanting landscapes.

Janfer says “I am a MA student from Critical Inquiry Lab, Design Academy Eindhoven, with study focusing on design curating and writing. I am aspire to be a writer/ artist. In my current research, I am interrogating the relation between history, memories and freedom, and how to look at these notions in todays digital realm.”

Clarice has a background in design and trend forecasting. As a professional trend forecaster she worked for different industry sectors, such as fashion, design, food and beverage, education. She is a doctoral researcher at RMIT University passionate about how fashion as culture might be transformed by speculative design towards more sustainable futures.

Emma Defty - graduating student of Product Design Programme at Glasgow School of Art. My practice is future and care focused.

Daniel Torquato Fortes - a black & queer master's student from Brazil. Studying MSc in Heritage, Foresight and Policy at UCL, fully funded by the Chevening Scholarship.

Katie Upsdale - social worker and designer with a background in third sector advocacy, community engagement, practice development and organisational change. Masters degree in Design Innovation and Citizenship at the Glasgow School of Art.

Amandine Fong - Final year Master of product design student from the Glasgow School of Arts, with a French and Chinese cultural background. My design practice revolves around research, system and future thinking, crafts, and future story-making with places and their inhabitants.

Veeksha Mehndiratta - final year architecture student from India curious about the multidisciplinary scopes of architecture.

Akash is a NIFT, Delhi Fashion & Apparel Design alum with a decade of multidisciplinary experience. He specializes in foresight-led processes in cross-connecting socio-cultural macrotrends to potential innovations, in order to generate industrially viable and beyond-human-centred holistic designs.

Akash leads MeWeStudioX, a newly-formed think tank and strategic design consultancy studio aimed at providing holistic and glocal solutions and is a faculty & course lead for Speculative & Futures Lab at ISDI, Mumbai - in collaboration with Parsons School of Design, New York.

Eun says “I am currently a Ph.D. student at Yonsei University. My research area is experimenting with design approaches such as speculative prototyping, critical design, material research, and co-creation for future world-making. My professional experiences in architecture, retail and industrial design have inspired me to pursue studies in sustainable design practices.”