The thickening of futures

• This paper starts off in predictions, speculations on thin and limited futures without pollinators. The gives account of designerly events that explore ways thickening the present as a form anticipatory practice. presents is explored through recipes storytelling to navigate towards or away from uncertain futures. authors make use Participatory design feminist technoscience, combining facts with speculations. put forward risks making too thick, since it might become sticky keep story going. engages biodiversity loss. In particular, focuses observations scientific facts: decline pollinators what entails for co-living humans more-than-humans. kind work often reaches publics stories article explores how situate issue out-of-sync plant–pollinator relationships into ongoing rather than distant future out one’s own hands. done collaborative project experiments various formats staging more material, embodied experiential sensitise invite experience pollination. We therefore give an we have situated issues thus suggest practice becomes both sweaty; addition, moves some pollination not only matters concern but also care. doing so, role researchers can play environmental anticipation by engaging emerging approaches loss future-making are simultaneously conflicting harsh well hopeful.