Season 2 / Ep. 07: El Yunque
In this episode, rooted in Sentido's El Yunque chapter, Alison is joined by futurist and speculative designer Monika Bielskyte to talk about Protopia Futures — a framework built on the premise that the futures worth inhabiting are neither utopian nor extractive, and that most of the people designing ours are still working from a model of the human that science abandoned a long time ago.
The conversation turns toward what it costs to design as though we were separate. Not just from each other, but from the ecosystems we are made of. What happens when world building replaces gardening, when the vision comes from one architect who never has to live inside the result. And what changes when independence stops being the aspiration.
Find Monika's work at monikafutures.design.