Office for Speculative Spatial Design

…exploring the role spatialising futures methodologies have in societal and planetary redemption!

Futures and foresight services for… architecture

Across RIBA work stages 0-3, competition entries, tenders and client pitch decks. A sliding scale from:

one-off consultations and document/report reviews

full integration into a design team including research, signal scanning, strategy, attending design review meetings, feeding into and feedback on all documents, reports and applications.

Architecture firms may be eligible for the UK Government Research & Development corporation tax relief scheme in the UK for employing such innovative services | RIBA guidance.

Futures and foresight services for… universities

As a Senior fellow of AdvanceHE and a National Teaching Fellow currently leading the superFUTURES platform at the Royal College of Art I have delivered keynote lectures, workshops and facilitated sessions (for staff and/or students) on:

(Speculative) Futures of (and in) Higher Education, Spatialising Futures, Embedding futures thinking into pedagogy, Curriculum (re)design, Queer Futures, Imagination Literacies, Spatial Storytelling, Pedagogic Readings of Queer Theory and more.

Link to Gem’s academic CV.

Futures and foresight services for… agencies, governments, institutes, NGOs

Please contact for expert interviews, advisory board membership, Delphi studies input, expert panel member, research and consultancy services.

Futures and foresight services for… art, design & cultural organisations

Creative design and speculation services for artists and designers including but not limited to one-off consultations and concept reviews, creative writing and storytelling services, research > scenario > design services.