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Speculative Designer

  • Shoko Tamura
    Shoko Tamura
    Speculative Designer
    Shoko Tamura is a member of Daijiro Mizuno research laboratory at Keio University, Tokyo Japan, where she looks at speculative design and the human mind. >
  • Kazuya Kawasaki
    Fashion Designer • Speculative Designer
    Kazuya Kawasaki is a fashion designer and a student in Keio University’s SFC X design programme. He is trying to create a new era of "speculative fashion". >
  • Vera de Pont
    Vera de Pont
    Fashion Designer • Speculative Designer
    Futuristic fashion researcher Vera de Pont explores the relationship between the human body and its surroundings. She works in both fantasy and reality. >
  • Agatha "Agi" Haines.
    Agi Haines
    Speculative Designer
    Agatha Haines is a speculative designer and part of the Pecha Kucha at Design Indaba Conference 2014. >
  • Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
    Artist • Speculative Designer • Writer
    Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is an artist, designer and writer investigating futures for design. >
  • MIT SENSEable City Laboratory: Assaf Biderman and Caro Ratti
    MIT SENSEable City Laboratory
    Architect • Engineer • Information Designer • Speculative Designer • Technology Designer
    Carlo Ratti and Assaf Biderman teach at the MIT, where they are director and associate director (respectively) of the SENSEable City Laboratory. >
  • Sonja Bäumel
    Sonja Bäumel
    Artist • Fashion Designer • Speculative Designer
    Continuing to work on applications for her Masters project, Bäumel's work engages with the boundaries between fashion design, art and biology. >
  • Thomas Thwaites
    Thomas Thwaites
    Interaction Designer • Scientist • Speculative Designer
    Thomas Thwaites is a designer whose work examines how technology, science and economics interact with trends. >
  • Nobumichi Tosa
    Nobumichi Tosa
    Artist • Performance Artist • Product Designer • Speculative Designer
    Nobumichi Tosa is a Japanese artist and founder of Maywa Denki, a design firm meets performance art collective. >
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