Antikythera Studios deploy an interdisciplinary speculative design methodology that uses scenarios to surface counterintuitive concepts and develop key research themes through propositions that move technological speculation beyond simplistic utopian and dystopian agendas. This approach recognizes that technologies are never simply good nor bad, but rather mechanisms that reveal things about the world and reposition the agents, environments, protocols, materials and infrastructures that compose and organize it.
Architecture — as both a discourse & discipline — has evolved a studio culture in which speculative and experimental modes of research are given a degree of autonomy from direct professional application, allowing it to explore ideas and literacies by working through projective models. Today, the software and hardware infrastructures of planetary computation need the same kind of speculative studio culture: one that focuses on foundational questions of what computational systems are and could be, examines what is necessary and what isn’t, and maps scenarios to test and chart trajectories accordingly.
