Superlative Futures, a transdisciplinary design and research studio, contributes through the practice of Wong Zi Hao, who gathers Stories of Ground from newspaper fragments, cartographic reinterpretations, and speculative seed architectures to imagine alternative ecologies that form new “memory palaces” to recall the substrate of ground beneath the rigid surfaces of the modern city. Stories of Ground highlights overlooked local histories that continue to grow in the interstices of urban life, proposing speculative worlds rooted in the material traces of place.

The Singapore-based studio was co-founded by Wong Zi Hao and Liu Dian Cong.  Its research practice centers on creative modes of landscape representation to advocate new ways of seeing and, through that, to speculate on alternative futures where cities might better coexist with more-than-human worlds.