Daniel Campos Muñiz
PhD Student / Graduate Researcher
Daniel Campos Muñiz is a PhD student at the Division of Industrial Design, National University of Singapore. He earned his Master’s degree in Industrial Design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and has conducted design research at the Finland Futures Research Centre (University of Turku) and Action Lab Mexico, with a focus on community-based futures projects. His current work bridges design futures and justice-oriented approaches, as well as pluriversality, to critically engage with the future of the care economy.
Research abstract:
The care economy is facing increasing strain as demographic shifts, technological changes, and socioeconomic inequalities converge. However, dominant futures projects often take technocratic or market-oriented perspectives, overlooking the lived experiences of care workers and caregivers sustaining care systems.
Daniel’s dissertation examines how speculative and participatory practices can be adapted to explore alternative futures of the care economy, particularly through the perspectives of communities often excluded from dominant futures dialogues, such as Migrant Care Workers. His research aims to (1) develop futures-oriented approaches to co-create alternative narratives and imaginaries that challenge the dominant techno-economic visions of the care economy, and (2) articulate how care can act as a generative lens for futures envisioning.
Contacts:
daniel_cm@u.nus.edu