Vernacular Futurism is a tectonic exploration of both ancient and contemporary ways of making. In this studio, we will combine traditional materials and methods —the handmade, the homegrown, and the ‘make do’— with our current context and technologies. The climate crisis makes clear we need new approaches to live lightly and adaptively on the planet. This class will investigate making, uses of materials, ways of being nomadic, and modalities of autonomous living as we learn both ancient and futuristic forms of vernacular design. This is a call to think wildly and widely about ways of being on this planet and the role of design in creating our future(s).