Design From Futures ™

Speculative Design Workshops


Workshops and consulting, promoting speculative thinking to reimagine the future.




Silsila

Royal College of Art
Imperial College London. 
2022


In a world where children spend one-third of their day
online, parents may interact with their digital child.

Silsila gathers “cookies” of the child from various platforms like Google and Meta, and decodes it, conveying the digital copy to the parent. This project explores the ethical implications of companies collecting data on people’s behaviors.







VibeCheck 

Design Psychology
Imperial College London
2021








Lampshade from Memory

Form from Audio
Nanyang Technolgy University
2022


Embedding meaning into objects by using historical events as the input. Data from a video file converted into vectors and used as cross-sections to 3d print (FDM) the form for a unique lampshade.







Prayer Beads from Memory

Form from Audio
Nanyang Technolgy University

2022


Embedding meaning into objects by using historical events as the input. Data from a video file converted  into vectors and used as cross-sections to be revolved into the form of a unique bead to be (SLA) 3d-printed.







Bare-ly Seen I

Art-Act Festival
Ten Square, Singapore
2023










Bare-ly Seen II

Art-Act Festival
Nexus Media Wall,
Singapore
2023








Equal Roots

Creative Conscience Finalist
Loughborough University
2021


A low-tech solution to help refugees successfully
integrate into society as soon as possible, by
encouraging interaction with the general public and
becoming familiar to their new environment asap.
 







Swirling Silica & Lipids

Front Cover
School of Art + Design, University of Illinois
2024



Artwork by Reiss Christensen, directed by Savio Mukachirayil, reflecting the work of researchers Braulio A. Macias-Rodriguez, Krassimir P. Velikov et al. The front cover was chosen by The Royal Society of Chemistry for their Soft Matter Journal vol. 20.







Exchanges

Pune / Wayanad / Seoul
2022



Design based on scientific data: A cross-generational board game to improve emotional intelligence of children in the concrete operational stage to recognise and label emotions. 

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