Student project

Liminal Utopias

Designer
Sasha Neema Ponte
Education
Master
Subject area
Fashion Design
Focus area
Design for Planet
Year
2026
Collaboration partners
Amy Twigger Holroyd
Background
Reframing futures through a queer utopian lens.

Liminal Utopias

Liminal Utopias explores queer futurity as an alternative to dominant dystopian visions of the future. Through design fiction, utopian thinking, and social dreaming workshops, the project invites queer people to collectively imagine preferable futures. The outcomes include a framework for utopian worldbuilding workshops and speculative garments inspired by shared values and dreams. Using vivid colours, psychedelic nature patterns, and fluid body forms, the garments translate abstract visions of alternative ways of living into tangible expressions of queer futurism.