This course understands design as an imaginative practice, a mode of inquiry, and a site of political creativity, acting as a powerful force in world- and future-building. In materializing the propositional, we challenge taken-for-granted myths, metaphors, and narratives that make it difficult to center human, planetary, and multispecies justice. Through the creation of provocative scenarios and imaginative artifacts, we envision more just ways of inhabiting the world and how this might be active in the design of urban systems, the built environment, technological artifacts, and the objects that shape and express who we are and how we live. This course engages directly with research and creative projects at the Critical Futures Lab. Grounded in a series of site engagements, students will study and experiment alongside the lab’s partners and collaborators exploring the capacities of stories to build relationships, challenge entrenched power dynamics, and prompt imagination.