Designing Radical Futures
River Valley Radical Futures
Travel to a future 100 years beyond the fall of capitalism, imagined by groups in the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts who work towards that future today. Download a map in English here, and in Spanish here (translation by Diego Acosta)
On display until March 12, 2026 at the Taber Art Gallery at Holyoke Community College in Holyoke, Massachusetts. See the gallery’s website to find out how to visit.
Upcoming event:
Imagining Collaborative Futures with Solidarity Economy Ecosystems
with Alix Gerber (River Valley Radical Futures curator) and Emily Kawano (co-coordinator of U.S. Solidarity Economy Network & co-director of Wellspring Cooperative)
Mar 12, 2026, 5-7pm
Making Radical Futures
A Humanities Lab at Smith College that explores collaborative ways of imagining futures without capitalism
Radical Infrastructures
An Instagram study on alternative social structures, or groups remaking the fabric of society to question the status quo
Radical Design
Courses and workshops exploring speculative design as a practice to imagine what civic life might look like if we prioritized different values
Futures of Public Safety
Working with activists and residents of St. Louis and Ferguson, MO to imagine futures where communities are kept safe without policing
Does design inherently produce static, blueprinted ways-of-being? Is it possible to design within systems that are relational, cooperative, and dynamic?
Designing for Self-Determination
Themes about what design practices enable and disable, from a virtual workshop at the Participatory Design Conference