Rachel Foley

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Rachel Foley is a writer and speculative designer exploring emerging technologies and their potential future impacts.

cover of the fall 2024 North American Review magazine of a man with a child on his shoulders

Essay: ‘Baby Machine’ - North American Review, Fall 2024 Issue

An AI generated image from Microsoft Designer of a woman wearing headphones listening to the plants in her apartment

Flash Fiction: ‘Plant Whisperer’ - Factor Four Magazine

An abstract image with red and beige textures

Essay: ‘Designing AI’ - A call for designers to help shape the future of AI

An exhibition space with the title Model Machines in neon

Exhibition: ‘Model Machines’ - DeepMind x Material Futures

A log with pink mushrooms and a built in solar panel in the exhibition 'Future Robots'

Exhibition: ‘Future Robots’ - DeepMind x Material Futures

A cartoon of an interviewer holding a clipboard across from an empty chair

Essay: ‘Have you spoken to everyone your technology affects?’

A woman in a hospital waiting room with her head in her hands

Film: ‘Technocratic Birth’ - A fake documentary about an experimental birth technology

A specimen jar labeled 'Baby XX'

Fiction: ‘Of Mothers and Machines’ - A collection of short stories on the future of reproduction

A man and a woman both wearing a machine-like wearable womb over their bellies

Project: Stork Sack - A wearable womb

a still from the film Gattaca of the surgeons holding a newborn baby

Essay: ‘Who truly makes decisions about your health?’

A woman in a field playing with a robot dog

Film: SPCRA - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Robot Animals

A dark room with a curtained voting booth with 10 people standing around a glowing machine

Project: ‘Future of Democracy’ - Would you trust an AI to vote on your behalf?

A sketchy looking scientist in goggles holding a red cord and a baby in a bag

Film: (MAN)ual Labour - If men controlled the future of birth

A faked photo of a French President with facial recognition outlines

Exhibition: ‘Deepfake Propaganda for Social Good’ at Tate Exchange

A speculative prototype of a baby in a bag-like artificial womb

Project: Prototyping the artificial womb

Two people with oars in front of a black background

Film: ‘Volkswagen Go’ - the future of roadtrips in an age of autonomous vehicles

a woman reaching out to touch a hologram of a man next to social media posts

Film: YouTomb - How do you want to be remembered?

A collage of two models in a dress that transforms

Project: Dissolve x Stella McCartney - transforming single use gowns for a circular economy

A collage of a woman with fake eyelashes, hair extensions, silicone breast implants, etc.

Collage: The Original Cyborg

a gallery of knitted garments and accessories

Knitting keeps me from unraveling…