SOLAR SPECULATIONS - FINAL REVIEWS MASTER STUDIO 22.07.2026

Solar Speculations is a master’s design research studio that engages with the sun not as a neutral source of energy, but as a material, atmospheric, cultural, architectural, and speculative force. Rather than assuming a single desirable future, the studio explores how different relationships with the sun might give rise to plural futures: collective or unequal, restorative or extractive, hopeful, unstable, or dystopian.

Throughout the semester, participants worked across anthropology, art, architecture, and critical design to imagine and develop situated future scenarios in which the sun plays a decisive role in reorganizing social, material, and energetic relations.

Within these speculative cosmologies, each participant developed a Solar Instrument: a device that mediates the relationship between bodies and sunlight, alongside a corresponding Solar Space that functions as a collective infrastructure, ritual site, or spatial typology shaped by the political, ecological, and cultural implications of their scenario.