The disruptive implications of emerging and future risks - from extreme heat and cyber-physical attacks to degrading soil nutrition and power outages - pose direct and indirect harms that threaten the quality and functioning of everyday life.

 

This dynamic, amplified by a culture of learned helplessness and a critical lack of societal risk preparedness has sparked a question that I've been thinking about for a while :

 

How can the disruptive implications of these risks be anticipated in a way that enables the design of anticipatory adaptations - things, objects and tools that can enhance individual and household resilience in the present-day, to come into action if and when such risks become manifest?

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Approaches to this question are explored in the projects below, each of which imagine anticipatory adaptations to a critical emerging risk. 

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All projects will be live toward the end of 2024.