From If to Is: When Speculation Becomes Science

Drawing from projects spanning kelp-centered infrastructures to microscopic ecologies, Aroussiak Gabrielian reflects on how urgent environmental challenges—and the interdependence of environmental, organismal, and human wellbeing—require new tools for knowledge-making. Tools that honor both the precision of science and the expansive possibilities of the imagination, creating a recursive loop where each mode of inquiry feeds and strengthens the other. She demonstrates how speculation can become an expansive research method, not by replacing data, but by creating space for discoveries that a purely empirical approach may miss.Featuring Aroussiak Gabrielian[We Have Seen The Future]