the sceptical futuryst

"Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a port...

As the covid-19 crisis unfolds, many of us are looking to an extravagantly uncertain future with anxiety, as well as a new appreciation and...

Good news, everyone! The Journal of Futures Studies special double issue on Design and Futures, appearing in back to back editions earl...

Volume II of the  Journal of Futures Studies special issue on Design and Futures has been published! A Conversation Piece installati...

I recently did a 'mini-residency' at Stanford, aimed at bringing futures concepts and methods into the d.school (aka Hasso Platt...

Exciting news: a project years in the making has been published! Together with my colleague Cher Potter of the Victoria & Albert ...

Newcomers to the design/futures party are often curious about bridging from abstract talk of possible futures into more tangible exploratio...

I did the following interview for  Desktop  ("Australia’s most read monthly design culture magazine") late last year. The text ...

Time travel is basically about the way you look at things... This talk was given in November 02012 as part of the City of Melbourne...

From Canberra to Currumbin, and beyond, Australia's spatial strategy for governance could be very different in the future from what it i...