Speculative Design

Future-oriented projects, whether physically or digitally produced, designed for the purpose of cultural commentary, intervention, or exploration, or created as speculative design for a client or educational institution. Examples include: alternative structures, device protoypes for social needs, hypothetical wearable implants.

2025 Speculative Design Jury

  • Jury Captain

    Tiange Wang

    Senior Software Designer, IDEO

    Tiange Wang is an award-winning and internationally-exhibiting designer and creative technologist. Her work investigates innovative interactive paradigms among humans, technology and the environment. As a designer-developer hybrid, she enjoys designing novel experiential futures as much as bringing them to life, integrating interaction design, software prototyping, storytelling and system thinking into a cohesive, full-stack design process. Tackling subjects like climate change, holistic wellbeing, multisensory experiences and speculative futures, she employs mediums including multimodal interaction, creative data visualization, multimedia art, installation, food, mix-reality, software, AI and games.

    As a senior software designer at IDEO, she leads teams in crafting human-centered, planet-conscious, data-informed and GenAI-enabled product experiences across web, mobile and spatial computing platforms. She guides clients through transformative journeys across industries such as health, climate, media, technology, and consumer products, taking ideas from 0 to 1 and transforming them into market-ready products.

    Her work has received numerous prestigious awards and been showcased at prominent venues like SXSW, SIGGRAPH, and CHI, presented at institutions including Stanford, Harvard, and the MIT Museum, and featured in leading outlets such as Fast Company, Dezeen, and others.

    Tiange holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with High Honors from the University of California, Berkeley.