Envisioning, performance and design fiction as research approach to predict future convergence between bodies, technologies and water.

Through the lens of envisioning, design fiction, performing arts and creative writing, we examine these frameworks as a research approach to explore current trends and predict future convergence between bodies, technologies and water. We focus on a new work titled Ocean Synapse: a media performance philosophy-in-action event that occurs between two networked artists located in Melbourne (AU) and San Francisco (US). Trans-hemisphere exchange is enabled by digital technologies and historical counterparts and fused with the aesthetics of maritime and ocean lore. By exploiting poetic formats and a fictional design approach as a research tactic, it is proposed that the work embraces flow and its impact across all bodies: ecological, biological, and technological. Building upon the premise of the ritual performance: "by 2040, all systems collide: information transfers through liquids - oceans and gases - as a ubiquitous mainframe supporting all life and intelligence. We see our planet like a brain with two hemispheres supporting one body. The ocean therefore supports synapse pathways of many bodies in drift", we dive in to critique the research approach, highlight the significance of the outcomes and contribute an understanding of the philosophical and technological convergence phenomena.