My work spans speculative design, civic futures, participatory methodology, and community practice — held together by the question: what conditions allow communities and places to imagine and govern their own futures?
Meet the a
My recurring terrain is cities, watersheds, and the communities navigating between them.
amalia deloney is a Guatemalan-born transborder designer and civic futurist. Her practice integrates law, design, and history — using speculative design, civic futures tools, and popular education to build governance frameworks that center more-than-human agency alongside displaced and marginalized communities.
She is the founder of Point A Studio and co-leads Widening the Lens, a transnational systems sensing practice in collaboration with Glo Mayne Davó of Glou Studio (Mexico City).
Her body of work includes the Inundation Accord — a speculative climate governance workshop set in Fells Point, Baltimore in 2060 — and Asking the Water First, a named methodology centering more-than-human agency in civic and spatial design. She publishes Seed & Signal, a living research and writing practice tracking signals, patterns, and futures thinking.
amalia holds a JD with a concentration in Social Justice and is completing an MA in Design for Social Innovation at the University of Cyprus (graduating 2027). In August 2026 she joins Pratt Institute as Adjunct Professor in the MS Urban Placemaking and Management program.
She is a 2026 Belonging Innovation Lab Narrative Fellow and recipient of a Baltimore Mayor's Individual Artist Award. Her work is epistemologically rooted in Global South ways of knowing and movement traditions.
What Guides the Work
Governance as the true center — consent, agency, and standing at every scale
Climate as a reckoning portal, not an urgent crisis to be managed
Neighborhood as the primary civic site
Ancestral and more-than-human knowledge not as correctives to dominant planning, but as its replacement
Ready to shape futures worth inheriting—together?
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