This practice-based PhD thesis examines the role of the render in contemporary Saudi Arabia, where large-scale development projects are increasingly communicated through speculative visualisations. Yet what does the render do beyond representation, and how does it shape the ways in which futures are encountered before they exist? While renders are often framed within architectural discourse as tools for visualising unbuilt environments, this research argues that they operate as affective and performative devices that organise experience prior to material realisation. Rather than treating the render as a representational image, this thesis positions it as a condition through which the future is already lived. The thesis argues that the render does not simply depict future environments but produces conditions in which the future is actively inhabited ahead of its realisation. It invites participation in futures that remain incomplete or deferred, blurring the boundary between representation and enactment. The present becomes a site of rehearsal, where the future is not only anticipated but continually performed. At the core of this study is the concept of the re-enactment of the speculative self, which describes how individuals and communities begin to inhabit projected futures prior to their material realisation. Through this lens, the thesis asks what renders do beyond representation, how they organise belief and anticipation, and how they shape the ways in which futures are imagined before they exist. The research adopts a practice-based methodology, positioning the author as both observer and participant within the cultural landscape under study. Artistic works, including The Green Light, Ghosts of Today and Tomorrow, and The Mirrored Horizon, alongside the artist-led collective SINDBAD, function as sites of inquiry. These projects engage performance, sound, and installation to examine how speculative images operate as forces that guide attention and orient experience, drawing bodies into alignment with futures that remain out of reach. Through this, the research establishes the render as a condition through which futures are actively lived, rather than simply forecast.