We invite the HCI community to become sandwich makers, advocating for the inclusion of artist residencies as part of speculative design methodologies that build and explore fictional worlds through the creation of provocative prototypes or “provotypes”. In this paper we present our experience of including an artist residency as part of our world-building process. We reflect on how the inclusion of a residency in our sandwich model helped contribute alternative ways to immerse, explore narratives, do world-building and use curation as a form of annotation. We conclude with some key insights for why design researchers in the HCI space might wish to use sandwich models in their own research processes, using artist residencies to pursue multiple explorations of emerging technologies, drawing in different voices to provoke debate about the futures we want to create.