Queer/ing
Futures
intersects postnormal
social research,
critical design practice,
liberatory tech,
and becoming otherwise.

Queer/ing Futures conceptual diagram
01

Postnormal
Social Research

Postnormal social research recognizes uncertainty, complexity, contested values, high stakes, and urgency as conditions of lived experience and social inquiry.

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02

Critical
Design Practice

Critical Design Practice uses design to ask questions. Using methods including data-driven speculation, what-if scenarios, worldbuilding, and futures, it makes alternative possibilities present, tangible, and accessible.

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03

Liberatory Tech

Liberatory Tech builds flexible, values-infused ethical systems designed to lift and care rather than extract or control. It prioritizes transparency, consent, data sovereignty, collective agency, open source, and open science.

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04

Becoming
Otherwise

Becoming Otherwise is the practice of actualizing possibilities already present within complex diverse lived realities. It escapes norms, normals, and normative frictions and makes real otherwise ways of being, knowing, relating, and doing.

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