Close-up of tall dry grass and leaves in black and white.
Close-up of tall dry grass and leaves in black and white.

Truth Nodes

South Asian languages Scripts
A textured surface with a mix of light and dark gray patches and cracks.

Supported by International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) Solferino Academy and ICRC Innovation Team

Speculative Design
Speculative Design

When trust erodes and information itself becomes unreliable, what does survival look like?

This speculative project worked with futures of autonomous weapons, climate breakdown, misinformation, and surveillance - conditions that compound each other. Through fast-paced, low-fidelity prototyping, we moved signals across social, technological, environmental, ethical and political domains into near-future scenarios.

What emerged was the TruthNode: a speculative artefact imagined as a resilient information system for crisis zones, providing real-time data on food, water, biohazards, and safe passage. The artefact holds a tension at its core: how do you design systems that safeguard truth as a life-saving resource without those same systems becoming tools of surveillance and control?

The work was presented at the 34th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Geneva.

Texture of south asian cultural practice of tying threads around tree trunks
Texture of south asian cultural practice of tying threads around tree trunks
Speculative product sheet for TruthNode, a near-future information booth designed by Lagori Collective for crisis zones, created for the IFRC Solferino Academy and ICRC Innovation Team speculative design project.
Speculative product sheet for TruthNode, a near-future information booth designed by Lagori Collective for crisis zones, created for the IFRC Solferino Academy and ICRC Innovation Team speculative design project.
Event poster for Fragments of the Future Pop-Up Gallery at the 34th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Geneva, featuring Truth Nodes, a speculative design project by Lagori Collective and IFRC Solferino Academy.
Illustrated speculative artefact showing TruthNode crisis-zone information booths in near-future scenarios, created by Lagori Collective for the Truth Nodes project with IFRC Solferino Academy and ICRC.
Plenary hall at the 34th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Geneva where Lagori Collective presented Truth Nodes, a speculative design project on resilient information systems for crisis zones.
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