Teaching

Speculative Design

Students build artifacts from imagined worlds to question how emerging technologies could reshape bodies, cultures and everyday life.

UndergraduateElective14 weeks

My role: Instructor

Design for Physical Interaction II

Physical AI, haptic interfaces and interspecies prototypes investigate how bodies sense, communicate and relate through technology.

GraduateStudio15 weeks

My role: Co-instructor · with Daniel Leithinger

Integrated Prototypes/Products

Repeated experiments in materials, fabrication and form develop objects that connect personal narratives, bodily experience and cultural meaning.

UndergraduateElective15 weeks

My role: Instructor

Offerings: Fall 2025 · Spring 2025 · Fall 2024 · Spring 2024 · Fall 2023 · Spring 2023 · Fall 2022

EXPLORE, EXPLAIN, PROPOSE

Situated computational research examines how systems of mapping, machine vision and urban infrastructure shape power, environmental justice and access to resources.

GraduateColloquium

My role: Co-instructor · with Daniel Miller

Biological Design

Students turn urban waste streams and overlooked ecologies into biomaterial experiments, examining the environmental and ethical implications of making with biology.

Undergraduate + graduateStudio15 weeks

My role: Instructor

Cultures of Making

Fictional devices and bodily extensions question how everyday technologies shape identity, communication and the boundaries of the human body.

UndergraduateElective14 weeks

My role: Instructor

Making Kin with Biomaterials

Through grown materials, silkworm-spun silk and scenarios for life after petroleum, students explore how making with living organisms changes relationships with other species.

Student work: Eujin Kim’s Lampshade Design

GraduateElective14 weeks

My role: Instructor

Design in The Posthuman Age

Investigations of microbial perception and machine vision become graphic and physical experiments that challenge the human viewpoint as design’s default.

GraduateElective14 weeks

My role: Co-instructor · with Anastasiia Raina

Interdisciplinary Team Project

Collaborative media environments and experiential prototypes explore how life after oil might transform everyday rituals, institutions and collective beliefs.

UndergraduateStudio elective17 weeks

My role: Co-instructor

Currents: Immersive Scenarios

Sets, props and participatory scenarios turn alternative relationships with technology and the environment into situations people can enter, experience and debate.

GraduateElective15 weeks

My role: Instructor

Cross-Species Test Sites

Fieldwork with urban wildlife and microbes informs situated prototypes that test how humans might share the city with other forms of life.

GraduateElective14 weeks

My role: Instructor

Critical Thinking & Experimental Processes

Experimental objects expose the assumptions behind industrial design, questioning what counts as a problem, whose needs matter and what design is for.

GraduateStudio13 weeks

My role: Co-instructor · with Paolo Cardini and Agi Haines

Data Futures

Interviews, fictional scenarios and embodied prototypes examine the social consequences of everyday AI and the designer’s responsibility in shaping them.

GraduateElective15 weeks

My role: Co-instructor · with Daniel Goddemeyer

Weather Worlds at UNFCCC COP24

Food systems and waste become starting points for public engagement proposals that connect everyday experience with climate politics in preparation for COP24.

Undergraduate + graduateElective7 weeks

My role: Co-instructor · with Karolina Sobecka

Micro-Environment Exploration Lab

Sampling, genomic analysis and experimental devices make environmental microbiomes legible and explore new relationships between microbial life and the built environment.

GraduateElective14 weeks

My role: Co-instructor · with Elizabeth Hénaff

Weather Worlds

Students turn relationships between weather and culture into public activities for a speculative 2064 climate pavilion at the Queens Museum.

UndergraduateElective14 weeks

My role: Co-instructor · with Karolina Sobecka

Designing Hypotheticals

Live-action role play, machine learning and fabricated environments make possible futures inhabitable, testing speculative ideas through an immersive exhibition.

Alternative programIntensive4 weeks, full-time

My role: Co-instructor · with Sascha Pohflepp

Testing Tomorrows

Observations of New York become speculative devices tested in everyday settings, inviting public responses to how emerging technologies might change city life.

GraduateElective7 weeks

My role: Co-instructor · with Richard The

Modeling Futures

A participatory futures program at Pioneer Works.

Alternative programCourse5 weeks

My role: Instructor

Weaving Fabulations

Collaborative storytelling and artifacts give form to worlds organized around mutualism, repair and coexistence, drawing on Haraway and Le Guin.

Workshop intensive5 days

My role: Co-facilitator

Ecological Intelligences and Interspecies Agents

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator

Carbon Care Commoning Kit

Scent and performed dialogues make changing carbon cycles perceptible, inviting participants to inhabit the social and sensory worlds of an energy transition.

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator

Sensory Salon

Ali Forney Center youth and staff use spatial dioramas to define what belonging, affirmation and safety should feel like in shared spaces.

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator

Water Is…

Young designers reimagine the fire hydrant as a shared neighborhood resource, proposing new ways to drink, cool down and gather around water.

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator

Precognitioning Post-Oil

Guided role play and immersive installations let participants rehearse everyday life, social values and new kinships in a New York beyond fossil fuels.

Workshop3 days

My role: Co-facilitator

Designing with Biology

Workshop5 days

My role: Co-facilitator

Deep Unlearning

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator

Workshopping workshops

Workshop2 days

My role: Facilitator

Design Fiction & Digital Fabrication

K–12Workshop

My role: Co-instructor · with Matej Vakula

Welcome to the Futures

Students translate emerging scientific developments into fictional devices and behaviors, then take their prototypes onto New York streets to gather public responses.

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator

Future Present and Coastnatural Trail

An evening workshop in which participants invented postnatural species, followed by a fictional trail pop-up and field guide for the Spring Open House.

Workshop1 evening

My role: Workshop lead

The Society for Speculative Rocketry

Participants revisit past visions of space travel, build speculative payloads and launch them in model rockets to explore the cultural imagination of spaceflight.

Workshop2 days

My role: Co-facilitator

Herramientas Urbanas

Walking, listening and making produce tools for sensing Mexico City, revealing social and environmental conditions that conventional urban measurements can miss.

Workshop3 days

My role: Workshop lead & facilitator

Design Intensive

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator

Film workshop

Workshop1 day

My role: Facilitator

Film workshop

Workshop2 days

My role: Facilitator

Film workshop

Workshop2 days

My role: Facilitator

Design Intensive

Workshop3 days

My role: Facilitator

Camera Hacking Nightschool

Time-lapse, camera traps and face detection reveal hidden urban behaviors, testing how altered cameras can produce unfamiliar perspectives on the city.

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator

Climate Futures

Young people in Bronzeville and Rockford translate climate science into neighborhood scenarios and objects that express their own priorities for the future.

Workshop3 weeks

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

After Markets Market

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Specials Programme Think Tank

Participants invent hypothetical Estonian government programs and communicate them through public artifacts, opening civic priorities and possible futures to discussion.

Workshop5 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Metro Test Zones

New Yorkers develop scenarios for the city’s future green spaces, forming the basis for theatrical simulations of changing infrastructures and social relations.

Workshop2 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Testing Hypotheticals

Queens residents author and prototype neighborhood futures, bringing their own desires and priorities into a setting historically associated with official visions of tomorrow.

Workshop2 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Pull-Tap Alley

Fictional pull-tab advertisements turn a city alley into a forum for imagining what people might need, offer or exchange in future informal economies.

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Your Dream Attraction

Coney Island visitors imagine fictional amusement rides as experiments in future urban experience, receiving their proposals as personalized postcard tickets.

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Specials Programs Think Tank

Workshop5 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Panel for Future Special Programmes of the European Union

Participants in Malta imagine programs a future European Union could introduce, using speculative proposals to explore alternative public priorities.

Workshop5 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Design Kids | Future Prototype

Children use everyday materials to prototype responses to unexpected future needs, making room for possibilities beyond familiar products.

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Design Futures Workshop

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Extrapolation Foundry

A series of workshops inside Ginkgo Bioworks brings designers into the foundry to explore possible futures for biotechnology.

Workshop

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Dalton Original Minds Residency

Students and educators turn signals of change into dioramas and prototypes that explore how learning and food systems could evolve.

K–12Residency / workshops2-year residency

My role: Workshop co-lead · with Elliott P. Montgomery

Transition Habitats

Visitors model changes to urban infrastructure from the perspective of species affected by climate change, imagining new forms of habitat and coexistence.

Workshop4 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Alternative Unknowns

Discussions with emergency planners inform fictional preparedness objects and scenarios that actors test through improvisation, exposing different ways a crisis might unfold.

Workshop2 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Adventuring Trailhead

Residency / workshops

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Speculative Design and Strategic Planning

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Hybrid Urbanism: Kiosk

Workshop5 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Extrapolated Center For Atmospheric Research

Graduate students translate scientists’ climate research into speculative instruments, placing prototypes at NCAR to discuss future research practices and environmental change.

Residency / workshops

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Cyborg

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Craigslist for Barter

Students post speculative thesis prototypes on Craigslist’s barter section, using responses to explore how unfamiliar objects acquire meaning and value.

Workshop2 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Action/Reaction

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

1-888-FUTURES

Students turn callers’ hopes and concerns into physical gifts for named recipients, making speculative futures personal and addressed to someone in particular.

Workshop2 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Wild Posting Futures BBQ

Participants compare futuring methods by designing street posters, using familiar public messages to imagine changes in New York’s social and technological landscape.

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

UNICEF MSA Visioning Workshop

UNICEF staff translate institutional goals into fictional children’s dreams, using narratives and dioramas to connect abstract ambitions with imagined everyday lives.

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Telstar Shopping Network

Invented products and filmed sales pitches populate a fictional shopping channel, bringing possible futures into the persuasive language of home shopping.

Workshop5 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

SYM(MICRO)BIOTICS

Synthetic biology research becomes speculative artifacts of life in 2050, examining everyday dependencies between people and engineered microorganisms.

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Phantom Residents

Visitors invent residents and belongings for a display home, using synthetic biology as a prompt to question who inhabits the consumer future.

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Pawn Tomorrow

Museum visitors prototype objects for a fictional pawnshop, opening questions about how future needs, desires and systems of exchange might assign value.

Workshop3 weeks

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Mobile Service Stations

PS 147 students choose neighborhood issues and model future mobile services, using street vending to imagine changes in local social life.

Workshop3 weeks

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Futures Capsules

Participants fill four time capsules with artifacts of divergent futures, exploring how growth, collapse, discipline and transformation could shape everyday life.

Workshop

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Futurematic - Waves of Tomorrow

Workshop2 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Futurematic

A card game generates divergent scenarios that participants turn into products for a working vending machine, placing imagined futures within an everyday transaction.

Workshop2 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Department of Communicative Beings and Things

Visitors form fictional lobbying groups for communicative objects and print their demands as bumper stickers, imagining political voices for nonhuman things.

Workshop2 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Creature Companions

A futures exercise with IDEO and a veterinary client explores possibilities for pet care to inform longer-term organizational choices.

Workshop

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Biotechnominimarket

Design Interactions students prototype technological products for an informal electronics market, placing imagined devices among the familiar goods of everyday commerce.

Workshop1 day

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

New Future Picnic

Designers diagram their futuring methods with food, using a shared picnic to compare how they imagine, organize and communicate possible worlds.

Workshop

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Junk Mail Machine

Visitors invent future services and receive them as junk mail, using unsolicited advertising to explore the needs and consequences of imagined urban economies.

Workshop2 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

99 Cent Futures

Participants fabricate products from imagined futures and sell them in a neighborhood discount store, inviting shoppers to encounter speculation through ordinary consumption.

Workshop2 days

My role: Co-facilitator · Extrapolation Factory

Capstone Project Advising

GraduateCapstone advising

My role: Capstone Project Advisor

Yuhang Qiu · Jayce Kim

Memories Relived — Yuhang Qiu ↗ · The White Room — Jayce Jungseo Kim ↗

Graduate Thesis Research

Visiting critiques of graduate thesis research in industrial design, across three offerings in 2015 and 2018.

GraduateThesis studio critique

My role: Visiting critic

Offerings: Fall 2018 · Spring 2018 · Fall 2015

Aaron Simmons

GraduateThesis advising

My role: Thesis committee member

Hybrid Urbanism

A visiting critique contribution to the Hybrid Urbanism studio at Strelka Institute.

Studio critique

My role: Visiting critic

Alex Todaro

GraduateThesis advising

My role: Thesis committee member

Namwoo Bae

Thesis advising

My role: Thesis committee member

Kyung Hoon Hyun

Thesis advising

My role: Thesis committee member