Design(s) Critique(s)

Entretien avec une artiste qui jongle entre spéculation et critique pour interroger le vivant et les biotechnologies.

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How do you use the posture of speculative design in your work? How does it foster your approach?

Many of my early works were largely exploratory and commented on my experiences in the laboratory including the transformative potential of organisms, laboratory materials and processes, as well as inter-species connections.

More recently, I have become interested in the possibilities of speculative practices to interrogate the potential of new and emerging technologies in a tangible way. I am an avid science-fiction fan, and draw a lot on popular cultural engagements with new technologies and storytelling strategies to create imaginative platforms for discussion. I am particularly interested in how speculative works can reveal current beliefs, values, fears, systems of power and techno-scientific trajectories, and prompt thought and discussion about which potential futures are preferred, and whose interests we wish to continue to support. In this way, I think speculative engagements are about posting interesting questions and starting to reveal the complexities and unexpected potentials of technologies, but also our own ideologies and how these necessarily become embodied in the processes and outcomes of production.