The Trouble with Speculation

Introduction – Luke Moffat, Christine Mortimer and Maria Alejandra Lujan Escalante

Part 1: Scaffolding

Foreword – Laura Forlano

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

2. Investments in the Imaginary: Commercial Drone Speculations and Relation – Anna Jackman and Maximillian Jablonowski

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

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

The Debate

Part 2: More-than-Human Worlds

Foreword – Anne Galloway

5. Speculative Listening: Melting Sea Ice and New Methods of Listening to the Planet – Kaya Barry, Michelle Duffy, 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 – James Fathers

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

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

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