This tool is a digitized adaptation of The Thing From The Future: an award-winning card game created by The Situation Lab (Stuart Candy, Ph.D. and Jeff Watson, Ph.D.) in 2014. Using the cards to form creative prompts, players are challenged to imagine and describe speculative objects from a range of potential futures.

While embodied as a game, it’s also a useful tool in speculative futures – for individuals and groups alike. This inspired us to create an iterative digital interface for it that enables both collaborative play and personal ideation.