Talk / Climate
Apocalypse!!!!! How not to be an idiot designing climate futures
Juli Sikorska
From science fiction to climate fiction: imagining possible climate futures we can live in
Most world leaders have committed to the Paris Agreement to keep the global temperature rise under 2°C
above pre-industrial levels. We expect our leaders to understand and counteract the effects the climate
crisis will have on our everyday lives, but do we truly understand what it means for us?
This talk will explain more about why we need to re-work our relationship with climate change and how
speculative design can help us see the many possible futures and design for the ones we want.
About the speaker
Juli Sikorska
Juli is a researcher and designer interested in making people feel the intangible. On a quest to understand what complex issues like the climate crisis will mean for us, she takes cues from creative fields like product and critical design to identify needs and generate empathy within systemic problems. Juli enjoys creating products, services and stories to envision and immerse ourselves in alternative futures.
In the product design world, Juli has led an ethnographic research project on clean energy, worked on an open innovation platform at the MIT Climate CoLab, and strategic design projects in investments and telecommunications. Her more creative work has led her from music journalism, to turning citizens’ feedback to the German Chancellery into visual stories, to designing out noise in cities. Juli's work has been exhibited at the Design Museum (UK) and South London Gallery (UK).
Juli studied human-computer-interaction and environmental studies at LMU and MIT and graduated from the CDTM entrepreneurship program.