Creative Systems & Futures is FICS’s studio for artistic and speculative research. It advances practice-led inquiry as a method for investigating complex social, technological, and ecological systems, positioning creative production not as peripheral cultural output but as a mode of systems research.
It operates across four interconnected, complementary, and porous clusters:
Gender, Media & Digital Cultures
Examines platform ecologies, algorithmic mediation, and intersectional digital identities through critical and artistic research.
Narrative, Aesthetics & Transmedia
Explores speculative storytelling, experimental film, interactive narrative, and worldbuilding as tools for reimagining communicative futures.
Design, Communication & Social Innovation
Advances practice-led design research in participatory futures, and communication-driven transformation, particularly in industry and community contexts.
Embodied Ecologies & Speculative Systems (EESS)
Integrates complexity science, technology design, and somatic perspectives to explore human–nonhuman entanglements, embodied cognition, and multiscalar ecological systems.