the sceptical futuryst

a blog about how we might feel tomorrow

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Nostalgic for the future

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We’re throwing a time travel party at Caltech tomorrow night. Here’s the slightly crazy story of how that came to be. Back in October, at th...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

What happens when 200 architects visit the year 02099?

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Spoiler alert: more music and dancing than I expected. Mithun , an architecture firm known for beautiful, environmentally thoughtful design ...
Thursday, October 09, 2025

Building Time Machines at California Institute of Technology

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I haven’t posted here for ages – a story for another time. Today, I’m writing to share something I’m focused on right now. This weekend I’m ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Library of Possibilities

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“The most potent time-traveling technology we have is also the oldest technology we have: storytelling. The shelves of every library in the ...
Tuesday, July 09, 2024

What if we could sing better futures to life?

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Notes from our collaboration with Brian Eno on using music to grow public imagination. This post is about a new initiative in progress – som...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Sharing Experiential Futures with governments around the world

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I was recently honoured to deliver a virtual masterclass seminar to a global audience of public sector futurists, through the OECD’s ( Organ...
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Stuart Candy
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Experiential futurist. Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey; Artist in Residence at Caltech Theater; Advisor at MIT Future Fest; Director of Situation Lab; Chair of the Center for PostNatural History; Fellow of The Long Now Foundation. Co-editor of Design and Futures; co-creator of The Thing From The Future and The Futures Bazaar. Short portfolio here; full bio here.
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