Pouyan (He/Him) is a PhD researcher at Lancaster University. His design and research career is at the intersection of design fiction, futures, and emerging technologies. His design practice is diverse, peculiar, and playful, often addressing multiple socio-political trends and issues within the framework of speculative and critical design. His work ranges from radical design fiction schemes and critical science fiction stories to more practical, yet innovative urban and environmental proposals. 

He has a master of architecture in situated technologies from SUNY Buffalo (2016). He worked as Research Fellow at Tehran Urban Innovation Center (2017), as Research and Development Manager at NextOffice (2018), and as Futurist and Storyteller at Future City Innovation Lab (2019-2020). He was also the chapter leader of Speculative Futures Tehran, the Tehran chapter of Design Futures Initiative (2019-2025).