The Futures Observatory
I founded and run the Design Futures and Strategic Foresight Guild within Accenture Song that does signal scanning, trends, and futures design projects.
(2025-Now)
Green Protopias
With Audrey Gaulard➚, I co-run an immersive Climate Futures Design Workshop for Innovation Design Engineering
(2023-Now)
FutureBabble➚
My touring, evolving speculative design talk about methods, approaches, and “Why Speculate”
(2020-Now)
Curious artefacts and strange situations from probable (and sometimes preferable) futures.
(2019-21)
Interaction Design Experiments➚
(2016-18)
Design Practice
Design Lead
(Futures, Service, Interaction)
Fjord (Now Accenture Song)
Tutoring: Speculative Design and
Human-Machine Interactions
Royal College of Art
Imperial College, London
Speculative Design and Fiction
Independent Practice
Eliza - The Ghost in Every Machine➚
Postcards from the Future➚
Frameworks and Methods➚
Speaking engagements
IDE45 Panel | Eliza Graphic Novel Launch Night @ Imperial College, London | Symbiosis Institute of Design, India | Association of Professional Futurists | Comics and AI Conference, City St. George’s University London | Experimental Realism | UC Berkeley | Design Futures Symposium, RCA London 2024 | Symbiocene 2024 | Design Products Symposium, RCA London 2023 | Living Summer School, Belgium 2022-23 | Innovated by Design | Wolffkraft EPC Mega Meet | IBM Futures Guild | Helen Hamlyn Centre | D-Ford | Milan Design Week 2023 | CEPT, India | IAAD Bologna and Turin | UAL London | Society 5.0 Festival Amsterdam 2022 | MIT-ID, India | NYU Abu Dhabi | Microsoft Fix-Hack-Learn | Gaea Festival NYC 2021 | Newell Brands | 4S Festival | Primer Festival | Speculative Futures Rotterdam, Stockholm | The Pollinator Residency | Art and Charlie | Virtual Futures 2018
Exhibitions
IDE45 Exhibit 2026, London | Futuring Peace, United Nations DPPA 2020 | Indianama 2019 | PechaKucha Stockholm | Science Museum London | London Design Festival
Media and Publications (Featured in…)
📕A Field Guide to Design Futures | 🌐Broken Frontier | ✍🏽4TU, Netherlands for Dutch Design Week 2025 | 🎥 Fjord / Accenture Life Trends | 📕Drawing for Product Designers | ✍🏽World Futures Review Journal | 🎥Broadcast from Later | ✍🏽UXMag.com | 📕Virtual Futures - Vital Signals | 🎙️Future Based Podcast | 📕Design India Magazine Issue 129 | 🎙️Speculative Futures Stockholm | 📕 Designing Objects in Motion | 🌐 Bitácora Naranja | 🌐 Clot Magazine | 🌐 Yanko Design
Comic Conventions
Thought Bubble Festival | Lakes International Comic Arts Festival | Winchester Comics Fair | PageMasters Fair | The Cartoon Museum