Bio-futures research and product foresight for emerging technology
New technology rarely arrives with a clear use. I work with the people developing it to map where it could go, then with designers and artists to turn the strongest direction into a prototype, physical or visual, that makes that future tangible.
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Flanders Technology & Innovation Festival — Wiels, Brussels Dec 2025 · Invited speakerSolarpunk and Hopepunk as frameworks for ecosocial transition
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iGEM Grand Jamboree, Art & Design Village — ParisA wearable that keeps a living koji culture alive on body heat.
Show projectMycelium composites that regrow where punctured, turned into a concept sneaker.
Show projectA wearable that reads emotion from scent, designed so the same object could serve empathy or surveillance.
Show projectA worldbuilding workshop format for engineers, with public talks and a podcast.
Show projectA brick of clay and farm waste, built into a pavilion and debated with the region's construction minister.
Show projectA workshop in which visitors carved the bazaar soap bar to read the history it carries.
Show projectI turn emerging technology into potential products that make the case for a desirable future.
Start with the science
My background is in life science and engineering, so I can meet a deep-tech team on its own terms. Through workshops and interviews with the people developing the technology, I learn what it can do and where they hope it will go.
Research the future it fits
Strategic foresight then asks in which future this technology has become a product, who would use it, and what would have to change around it for that to happen.
Prototype it
Together with designers and artists I prototype the strongest scenario, so the team and its audience can react to a future before committing to it.
"Every technology arrives with a future attached.
I help teams pick the one worth investing in."
Training among biological engineers, I saw how quickly the field can now build what it imagines, and how rarely it makes time to imagine. Research asks whether something works. Once almost anything can be made, the harder question is what deserves to be, and which future each technology would help enact. That question tends to arrive after the product exists. I work on it from the start, with the people developing the technology.
Embedded research, scenario and product development, facilitation, exhibitions.