Ab 2.12. läuft in Linz am Theater Phönix TURNTON - TELL ME ABOUT IT, das gemeinsam mit @TimesUp entstanden ist und Besucher*innen in einem immersiven Hörspiel in die Medusa Bar einlädt. Premiere ist zwar schon voll, aber es gibt noch Karten für die anderen Vorstellungen. #immersive #hörspiel #timesup #futuring #turnton2047 https://www.theater-phoenix.at/stueck/tell-me-about-it

Leverhulme Doctoral Programme for #RegenerativeInnovation* #PhD #Funding at #DundeeUni:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL167/leverhulme-doctoral-programme-for-regenerative-innovation-regnr8-i

Special plug for projects w research group colleagues 😊

1) Regenerating Healthcare Pathways for Equitable Health and Wellbeing
#Futuring #Foresight #Participatory

2) Co-Designing Regenerative Therapeutic Spaces
#Participatory #MixedMethods

#HealthCare #DesignResearch #Regnr8i #Sustainability #Restorative
* More info here:
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/phds/funding/leverhulme-doctoral-scholars-programme

Check this hopeful TED-talk in which Ruha Benjamin imagines Ustopias. 'Ustopias are built on an understanding that all of our struggles, from climate justice to racial justice, are interconnected, that we are interconnected.'
https://www.ted.com/talks/ruha_benjamin_is_technology_our_savior_or_our_slayer

This is more than imagining, it is possibility thinking.
#Commons #Commoning #SolarPunk #Futuring #Technology #PeopleOverProfit #RuhaBenjamin #FocusOpHetGoede

Heute auf dem Weg nach Linz ins Theater Phönix, für ein gemeinsames Treffen mit Time‘s Up #theater #medienkunst #futuring #turnton2047

| Blog | Read Josie Chambers' new blog post where she introduces the Utopia*Art*Politics Collection; a multi-media collection of provocations and insights by 33 artist-researcher-practitioners who participated in the Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions last year. The collection brings together diverse ideas on how artistic practices can help reimagine and remake our world: https://www.uu.nl/en/opinion/the-utopiaartpolitics-collection #UtopianPulses #Utopia #Art #Politics #Research #Futures #Futuring #Imaginaries

Meet our new colleague Abe Hendriks, who recently joined our team to work on our latest project: Nederland Verbeeld(t). In this project, we aim to use #futuring to create excitement about the Netherlands' future in the face of complex spatial challenges. Learn more about Abe; https://www.uu.nl/staff/AHendriks1

'In fact, the very act of trying to look ahead to discern possibilities and offer warnings is itself an act of hope.’
#DeZinVanHetBoek #TheEssenceOfTheBook

#BoekPerWeek 1/52 ★★★★★

Mijn bespreking in 🇳🇱:
https://verzameldezinnen.nl/2025/01/02/a-few-rules-for-predicting-the-future-boekbespreking/

My review in 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 :
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6992653316

#Boeken @boeken
#Bookstodon @bookstodon

#Scifi #Afrofuturism #Futuring #Toekomsten #Quotes #Citeren #Essay

6.3: Fully Automated! A Solarpunk RPG with Andy Gross

This week on Solarpunk Presents, we’re bringing you an interview with Andy Gross, one of the brilliant minds behind Fully Automated! A Solarpunk TableTop RPG (Role-Playing Game). Don’t worry, you don’t need to know game jargon to follow along for this one - solarpunk storytelling comes in a lot of different forms, and this is yet another kind for people to use to imagine a kinder, greener future that strives towards a utopia … of sorts.

RPGs get a reputation for being all about fighting. How does that work if the RPG is solarpunk? Or utopian even? What is an RPG, in the first place? What is the usefulness of a solarpunk RPG? Join us as we discuss these questions and more.

Art from the Fully Automated website used in episode cover is by Sean Bodley as well as a few other artists and this will get updated to credit them when we track them down :)

#solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #RPG #roleplayingGame #gaming #gamer #GameDesign #TTRPG #TableTopRolePlaying #TableTop #CharacterCreation #economy #policy #PoliticalSystem #politics #WorldBuilding #Future #futuring #cyberpunk

Season 4 episode 9.5: The Fantasies of Post apocalyptic Dystopian Fiction (Special Extra Bonus Half Episode)

There was so much to explore about post-apocalyptic fiction and the fantasies it allows us to have of, for instance, being the colonized "good guys" instead of the colonizer "bad guys" that we ended up with an entire extra half episode. What is the moral responsibility of reading post-apocalyptic science fiction? How should we feel about enjoying works that position white colonizers as victims?

Here it is! Enjoy!!

https://youtu.be/mBD_OMACgZc?si=uhDrccNnuVJxEmwd

#Episode #Season4 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #apocalypse #PostApocalypse #fantasy #DystopianFiction #Dystopia #AntiUtopia #FutureImaginary #Futuring #Scholarship #ScienceFiction #SF #SpeculativeFiction #ApocalypticFiction

Season 4 episode 9: The Fantasies of Post-apocalyptic Dystopian Fiction, with Ariel Kroon

Classic, post-apocalyptic, dystopian fiction is a type of fantasy where we’re dreaming of starting over in an empty landscape from a societal and cultural slate wiped clean by some devastating event that we don’t have to feel guilty about having happened—at least, it is according to our very own Ariel Kroon, who does, yes, have a PhD in it.* Yet, at the same time, these fantasies generally suffer from a strange lack of imagination, wherein the characters use the “fresh new start” to recreate the same old society, albeit with themselves at the top, with the same old systemic socioeconomic, environmental, and structural problems.

It’s almost as if it is easy to dream up apocalypse but next to impossible to envision a different way of living. Although a failure of imagination would most likely look different for solarpunk, can solarpunk creators and dreamers of a positive future avoid falling into the same sort of trap?

*Post-apocalyptic Canadian science-fiction 1948-1989, she wants to clarify. She’s even got the thesis to prove it.

https://youtu.be/IdouMiiRoWc?si=fJgNd4RkpoUk_fH2

#Episode #Season4 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #apocalypse #PostApocalypse #fantasy #DystopianFiction #Dystopia #AntiUtopia #FutureImaginary #Futuring #Scholarship #ScienceFiction #SF #SpeculativeFiction #ApocalypticFiction

Season 3 Episode 4: Capitalism, Community, and Friendship with Elia Ayoub

Why is it easier to imagine a zombie apocalypse than it is a generative, sustainable future? This question drives Elia Ayoub, host of The Fire These Times. Tune in today to listen to Ariel and Elia discussing imaginative expansion of solarpunk, the “realist” impulse, climate anxiety and grief, and community building in a crisis. Also The Office. Trust us, it’s an important part of this whole conversation.

Elia Ayoub is the host of The Fire These Times podcast and a Lebanese writer, researcher, scholar, editor and podcaster currently based in Switzerland since 2020. Join us for this thought-provoking and entertaining conversation.

#Episode #Season3 #YouTube #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #podcast #Community #Capitalism #Friendship #Anticapitalism #Hauntology @ayoub #Lebanon #TheFireTheseTimes #imagination #utopia #dystopia #future #futuring #CapitalistRealism #Hauntology #MarkFisher

Een betere toekomst is wel degelijk mogelijk maar alleen als we ons bevrijden uit de structuren, institutioneel & imaginair, die radicale vernieuwing verhinderen. Bekijk dit gesprek met @maartenhajer over #futuring en alternatieve toekomstperspectieven in tijden van klimaatcrisis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrOaffSHoIs #klimaat #climate #duurzaamheid #sustainability #TechniquesOfFuturing

Morgen – 3. Juli, 18:30h – ist wieder ein Futures Lounge Event auf Zoom. Das Thema klingt sehr spannend für alle die sich für #Futuring #KI und #PolicyMaking interessieren:

*KI – ein Schlüssel zur Welt von morgen. Passt er zur deutschen KI-Strategie?*

https://6l5ml.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/SMJz09SDriOHW0Xa1nx7YPBwgIqZ/nyZKy-lA2jBD

Morgen – 3. Juli, 18:30h – ist wieder ein Futures Lounge Event auf Zoom. Das Thema klingt sehr spannend für alle die sich für #Futuring #KI und #PolicyMaking interessieren:

*KI – ein Schlüssel zur Welt von morgen. Passt er zur deutschen KI-Strategie?*

https://6l5ml.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/SMJz09SDriOHW0Xa1nx7YPBwgIqZ/nyZKy-lA2jBD

"I don't know about you, but if the end of the world starts tomorrow then I don't want to be anywhere near a bunch of investment bankers with guns and crossbows they barely know how to use. They'll take themselves out long before anyone else starts to think about it. These billionaires can only imagine a world where everyone wants their stuff, because they've spent their entire lives stealing from everyone else and then wasting it all. As climate hell descends on us, their doomsday fantasies won't come to pass. It's going to happen in ways nobody can predict... They just can't get their heads around the fact that their own comfort, convenience, and even their survival depend on our survival as well. They hate that idea."
https://www.okdoomer.io/billionaires-going-bunkers
#climateCrisis #futuring #preppers #billionaires #community #SocialCapital

📣 We are looking for technology experts and enthusiasts!

👉 Do you work in education or research?
👉 Do you have affinity for technology?
👉 Do you know which IT trends are coming to make an impact?

🌟 Be part of our journey to produce the next @SURF Tech Trends Report!

#trends #technology #education #research #academia #News #futuring

https://www.surf.nl/en/news/share-your-expertise-surf-tech-trends-report-2025-2026

In June, we will be sending out our quarterly newsletter. If you want to hear from us but want to cut down on your social media time, this is for you. Subscribe to receive our next newsletter in your inbox: https://mailings.uu.nl/hp/rt6Oc-q1PyXO8GGcXdqRmA/subscribe_newsletter_urban_futures_studio #futures #futuring #sustainability #climate #imaginaries

Sign up for the 'Island and Oceans Imaginaries Teach-in & Workshop' on May 31st in Utrecht. This event is open to students, researchers, and everyone interested in islands and the Caribbean. https://www.uu.nl/en/events/exploring-the-caribbeans-everchanging-relationship-with-the-sea #Water #Caribbean #Oceans #Sea #Islands #Sustainability #Climate #ClimateReparations #Workshop #Zine #Imaginaries #Futures #Futuring

Last week in #Paris was really inspiring! If you find yourself in the city and need some recommendations, I enjoyed these exhibitions focused on #design, #futuring, #art and #sport.

Musée du Luxembourg:
MATCH
Design & Sport - A Story Looking to the Future

Lafayette Anticipations:
Coming Soon
While waiting for tomorrow

(Photos @ Lafayette Anticipations)

Last week in #Paris was really inspiring! If you find yourself in the city and need some recommendations, I enjoyed these exhibitions focused on #design, #futuring, #art and #sport.

Musée du Luxembourg:
MATCH
Design & Sport - A Story Looking to the Future

Lafayette Anticipations:
Coming Soon
While waiting for tomorrow

(Photos @ Lafayette Anticipations)