The 2026 Core77 Design Awards Speculative Design Winners (opens in new tab)

Taking the 2026 Professional honors in Speculative Design is Mare Regula from Self-initiated, with the design team comprised of Céline Minkyung Park. Mare Regula is a speculative design project that materializes the invisible disciplinary systems sustaining Jeju’s haenyeo (women divers) community—a UNESCO-recognized cultural heritage celebrated for solidarity, whose internal power structures have never been visually documented. Through two weeks of immersive fieldwork living alongside haenyeo...