Most of us are fluent in critique. We can describe the platform that extracts us, the state system that fails us, the algorithm that sorts us, the bureaucracy that eats our time, the future that has been stolen. Necessary work. But critique alone does not build the escape hatch.

Applied Science Fiction is a hands-on workshop for moving from protest to prototype. We will use speculative design, political imagination, world-building and practical prototyping to ask: if this problem had been solved, what would exist? What tools, rituals, protocols, infrastructures, institutions, interfaces, games or social practices would we find in the ruins of the old world?

Participants will choose real struggles, frustrations or community needs, then work in small groups to turn them into small, testable proposals. The goal is not startup theatre or utopian wallpaper. It is rehearsal: practising the muscles of collective imagination so liberatory futures become easier to build, steal, fork and deploy.