The Trouble with Speculation

Christine Mortimer is Deputy Academic Dean at Lancaster University, UK / Beijing Jiaotong University, China. Maria Alejandra Luján Escalante is Senior Lecturer in Co-Design for Service Design at UAL: London College of Communication, UK.

Introduction - Christine Mortimer and Maria Alejandra Luján Escalante


PART 1: Scaffolding


Foreword to Part 1 - Laura Forlano


1. Speculation with Glitches: Keeping the Future Moving - Shawn Bodden and Jen Ross


2. Investments in the Imaginary: Commercial Drone Speculations and Relations - Anna Jackman and Maximilian Jablonowski


3. Dystopias for Discourse: The Role of the Artist in a Rapidly Reconfiguring City - Clare McCracken


4. New Images of Thought: On Two Kinds of Speculative Realism - Arjen Kleinherenbrink


PART 2: More-than-Human Worlds


Foreword to Part 2 - Anne Galloway


5. Speculative Listening: Melting Sea Ice and New Methods of Listening with the Planet - Kaya Barry, Michelle Duffy and Michele Lobo


6. It Matters What Designs Design Designs: Speculations on Multispecies Worlding - Michelle Westerlaken


7. Edible Speculations: Designing Everyday Oracles for Food Futures - Markéta Dolejšová


PART 3: Speculative Ethics


Foreword to Part 3 - James Fathers


8. Beyond Speculation: Using Speculative Methods to Surface Ethics and Positionality in Design Practice and Pedagogy - Melanie Levick-Parkin, Eve Stirling, Maria Hanson and


Roger Bateman


9. Touring the Carbon Ruins: Towards an Ethics of Speculative Decarbonisation - Paul Graham Raven and Johannes Stripple


10. Science Fiction, Reconfigured Social Theory and the Anthropocene Age: Exploring and Thinking about Planetary Futures through Fictional Imaginaries - Yannick Rumpala


The Debate - Nik Baerten