Event Replay: Speculative Climate Design

Stuart Candy is an award-winning experiential futurist, artist, and educator dedicated to activating social foresight, and recently appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor of Critical Futures at Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City.

For two decades Dr Candy has led the development of design, media and arts-based practices now used worldwide, and variously known as experiential futures, speculative design, design fiction, discursive design, and design futures. His teaching, consulting, speaking and advisory experience spans leading art/design schools and universities, and organizations from NASA JPL, Snapchat, Apple, and Wired Magazine to the BBC, the Smithsonian, Obama Foundation and the United Nations.

Susy Jones is a Senior Project Manager at the MIT Office of Sustainability and works at the intersection of sustainability, health and wellbeing, community partnerships, and the imperative of justice in climate action. When she joined the team in the 2013, Susy helped launch the Office and develop its inaugural strategic framework, convening staff, students, and faculty from across the Institute around topics ranging from low-carbon commuting to organizational change. In partnership with MIT Dining, she is also working to advancing a climate-forward, culturally meaningful, and accessible food system at MIT.

Prior to MIT, Susy worked to advance energy efficiency in schools and public buildings in the New England and helped manage a landmark nutrition education program in 70 public schools in Philadelphia. Outside of MIT, you can find her exploring new food spots in Boston or taking in the beauty of the Arnold Arboretum. Susy has an M.A. in Urban & Environmental Planning & Policy from Tufts University and a B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College.

Anaya Raikar is a junior high school student from Brookline, Massachusetts. She is an intern at Our Climate Massachusetts as well as the MIT Climate Action Through Education program. With Our Climate, she has been heavily involved in the writing and advocacy process for an interdisciplinary climate education bill (H.4419).

She has organized two annual lobbying events with the Massachusetts Youth Climate Coalition where hundreds of Massachusetts youth had the opportunity to speak to their legislators about policies related to climate education, environmental justice, renewable energy, and more.

As an intern with MIT CATE, Anaya has prepared their interdisciplinary high school climate curriculum for its launch in Fall 2023. She additionally supports many of their outreach and professional development initiatives.

Finally, Anaya is a member of Governor Maura Healey’s Inaugural Youth Climate Council, where she has been able to make recommendations on relevant climate topics to the Massachusetts Executive Branch.