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.

"At a time where all futures seem foreclosed, this book experiments with speculative possibilities in ways that are at once stimulating, thought-provoking, and surprising.” Martin Savransky, Goldsmiths University of London

• Introduction - Christine Mortimer and Maria Alejandra Luján EscalantePART 1: ScaffoldingForeword to Part 1 - Laura Forlano1. Speculation with Glitches: Keeping the Future Moving - Shawn Bodden and Jen Ross2. Investments in the Imaginary: Commercial Drone Speculations and Relations - Anna Jackman and Maximilian Jablonowski3. Dystopias for Discourse: The Role of the Artist in a Rapidly Reconfiguring City - Clare McCracken4. New Images of Thought: On Two Kinds of Speculative Realism - Arjen KleinherenbrinkPART 2: More-than-Human WorldsForeword to Part 2 - Anne Galloway5. Speculative Listening: Melting Sea Ice and New Methods of Listening with the Planet - Kaya Barry, Michelle Duffy and Michele Lobo6. It Matters What Designs Design Designs: Speculations on Multispecies Worlding - Michelle Westerlaken7. Edible Speculations: Designing Everyday Oracles for Food Futures - Markéta DolejšováPART 3: Speculative EthicsForeword to Part 3 - James Fathers8. Beyond Speculation: Using Speculative Methods to Surface Ethics and Positionality in Design Practice and Pedagogy - Melanie Levick-Parkin, Eve Stirling, Maria Hanson andRoger Bateman9. Touring the Carbon Ruins: Towards an Ethics of Speculative Decarbonisation - Paul Graham Raven and Johannes Stripple10. Science Fiction, Reconfigured Social Theory and the Anthropocene Age: Exploring and Thinking about Planetary Futures through Fictional Imaginaries - Yannick RumpalaThe Debate - Nik Baerten