Elisa Giaccardi

Grace Turtle

PhD Candidate


CONTACTS

#Transition design #Design anthropology #Speculative Design #Performative design #Autoethnography

"To mobilise social imaginaries towards more just digital futures is about making worlds, otherwise."

ABOUT


Grace Turtle is a queer, Australian-Colombian designer, artist, and researcher whose post-disciplinary practice uses play and experimentation—through tabletop games, LARPing, and simulation design—to explore more just and sustainable futures. With over a decade of international experience across five continents, they are a member of Becoming, a speculative art and design research collective based in Barcelona. Their work has been presented at TEDx, The Influencers Festival, and PRIMER. As a Design Manager at Deloitte, they have led participatory design, futuring, and service design projects with governments, cultural institutions, and third sector organisations to support systemic transitions.