Speculative design as research method

Rather than following design’s traditional problem-solving imperative, critical and speculative design promise to interrupt the status quo and challenge audiences to imagine otherwise. From discourses of speculative design, to speculative narratives and the question of reception, we draw out the possibilities of speculative design as research method. Our Grow Your Own Lamb case study highlights how speculative design can raise more questions than it provides answers, as well as constitute new kinds of public that are not bound to being citizens but, following Donna Haraway, are still encouraged to “stay with the trouble.”