Imagine a personal flying machine, equipped with jetpacks, that could collect dew from clouds to supply fresh drinking water to the traveller. Or moveable, public habitats whose forms are inspired by current global patterns of human migration, immigration, and pilgrimage. Or a futuristic, water-based floating city designed to mutate with the tides and serve at once as transportation, island, and residence. At the turn of the millennium, after three consecutive catastrophic floods prompted the privatization of water resources, Mary Mattingly took note and started drafting. And so began Mattingly’s mission to create imaginative-yet-practical solutions for imminent world change. Ecology, nomadic living, and community participation are central to Mattingly’s projects. The photographs that make up House and Universe depict her predictions for our collective dystopia should global warming and corporate privatization continue unabated.