Future North, nurture forth

Abstract

What role might design fiction play in current investigations of our shared material and immaterial reality and culturally experienced landscapes of a ‘future north’ when culture and nature are inter-twined conjecturally? The chapter takes this up by presenting and reflecting on a collaboratively authored design fiction through the persona and voice of a nuclear powered narwhal. We use ‘devices’ to engage in speculative inquiry of Arctic within the Anthropocene and to explore cultural and articulatory connections between design and futures research in non-literal imaginings and locative critiques.

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