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Exploring post-neoliberal futures for managing commercial heating and cooling through speculative praxis
Oliver Bates, Christian Remy, Kieran Cutting, Adam Tyler, Adrian Friday
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19072

Exploring post-neoliberal futures for managing commercial heating and cooling through speculative praxis
What could designing for carbon reduction of heating and cooling in commercial settings look like in the near future? How can we challenge dominant mindsets and paradigms of efficiency and behaviour change? How can we help build worlds through our practice that can become future realities? This paper introduces the fictional consultancy ANCSTRL.LAB to explore opportunities for making space in research projects that can encourage more systems-oriented interventions. We present a design fiction t…