FuturePod

FuturePod episodes:

• 06.24.2024

  EP 194 - Why Foresight Matters! - John Smart

  John Smart, the CEO of Foresight U, joins us to chat about his book ‘An Introduction to Foresight’. Among many things he expands on his three mottos for investing in foresight and doing good work sustainably.

  
• 06.16.2024

  EP 193 - Complex Mess - Meredith Bowden & Dave Godden

  Meredith Bowden and Dave Godden host a community called Complex Mess that supports people who are looking for new and different ways to engage with complex messes. They explain how to Coddiwomple is to travel purposefully toward an as-yet-unknown destination.

  
• 06.10.2024

  EP 192 - An Honest Exploration of Uncertainty - Kristin Alford, Maggie Greyson & Elizabeth Merritt

  A guest conversation between Kristin Alford, Maggie Greyson and Elizabeth Merritt starts from the question about how Museums of the Future create agency and Hope and what can be gleaned from that for general Foresight application

  
• 06.02.2024

  EP 191 - The Inner Dimensions of the Future - Jay Gary

  Jay Gary returns for a chat and we discuss leadership development, institutional support, practice development and how his faith is foundational to his work and purpose

  
• 05.27.2024

  EP 190 - Somatic Futures: Speculations of Embodiment - Rodney Frederickson

  A conversation with Rodney Frederickson who is a design futurist, abstract artist, storyteller, philosopher, game designer, martial artist and an occasional poet about his case for somatic futures.

  
• 05.19.2024

  EP 189 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Signs of Change & Envisioning Future Humanitarian Aid

  We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Petranka Malcheva about their double award for the project embedding long-term thinking in Welsh...

  
• 05.12.2024

  EP 188 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Embedding Long-Term Thinking & Minister for the Future

  We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Petranka Malcheva about their double award for the project embedding long-term thinking in Welsh...

  
• 05.06.2024

  EP 187 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Dreams and Disruptions & Young Voices

  We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from the team from the Center for Engaged Foresight in the Philippines and their game,...

  
• 04.29.2024

  EP 186 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Fashion Futuring & Healing Past Trauma

  We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Clarice Garcia and her toolkit called values Driven Transitions for Fashion’s Imagined Futures and...

  
• 04.18.2024

  EP 185 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Expanding Imaginations and Intergenerational Wellbeing

  We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Mikko Dufva from the amazing SITRA and their work with Weak Signals and how...

  
• 04.15.2024

  EP 184 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Navigating Community Change & AI Enabled Foresight

  We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Petra Hurtado and her work integrating Foresight into the planning field and Mike Jackson...

  
• 04.12.2024

  EP 183 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Transformative Food & Museum Repatriation

  We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Estefania Simon-Sasyk and the folks at Transform and their work with the Mycelium network...

  
• 04.10.2024

  EP 182 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Democracy Games & PAN

  We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Randy Lubin and Mike Masnick and their award winning game, Futurecast, developed for the...

  
• 04.06.2024

  EP 181 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Interspecies Surrogacy & Utopia

  We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Luna Mrozik Gawler, an artist, writer and scholar based in Melbourne, Australia and their...

  
• 04.04.2024

  EP 180 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - The Plantiverse & Gen Z Innovations Tour

  We are delighted to start a new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Cecilia Tham , from Futurity Systems in Barcelona, Spain and their award winning work...

  
• 03.10.2024

  EP 179 - Eleven Tomorrows : A Futures Film - David Lindsay-Wright

  A return conversation with Dr David Lindsay-Wright who is a Futurist, Educator and Filmmaker about his latest venture. A communities view of their preferred futures(s) for Brisbane, Australia and that approach to futures work as compared to expert or decision-makers...

  
• 03.05.2024

  EP 178 - What Government Could Be - Thea Snow

  A conversation with Thea Snow, Director of the Centre for Public Impact Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Thea works in exploring ways to engage government and other changemakers to reimagine what government could be.

  
• 01.31.2024

  EP 177 - Foresight & Innovation - Patrick van der Duin

  A conversation with Patrick van der Duin who is a researcher, consultant and educator in Foresight and Innovation Management about how Foresight drives Innovation and Innovation drives Foresight, and that they are two sides of the same coin.

  
• 01.22.2024

  EP 176: Exploring the Future Through Games - Randy Lubin

  Randy Lubin is an award-winning foresight games designer, discussing how he brings these two disciplines together and how other games-curious futures practitioners can learn to bring games into their practice.

  
• 01.14.2024

  EP 175: None of us are OK until all of us are OK - Adam Drake

  Adam Drake is the founder of Balanced Choice, which works with movement, theater, and sharing stories to encourage positive behavioral change. Adam’s work is grounded in foresight tools and principles.

  
• 12.13.2023

  EP 174: Trans Normal Futures - Christopher Jones

  Christopher Jones returns for a chat on all things Post Normal and Trans Normal. Chris is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Post Normal Policy and Future Studies and Executive Director at the Trans Normal Institute.

  
• 12.07.2023

  EP 173: The Future of Sex and Intimacy - 2023 APF Masters Group Winners

  The Shameless Collective won the award for the Best Masters group work in 2023. They discuss their work on the Future of Sex and Intimacy.

  
• 11.21.2023

  EP 172: The Future of You - Tracey Follows

  Tracey Follows is back to put the big questions of identity to FuturePod.Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

  
• 11.16.2023

  EP 171: The Playbook of Careless Non Legal Innovation - Richard Slaughter

  Richard Slaughter is back for a chat to discuss the latest target of his forensic critical thinking skills, the careless innovation of Big IT.

  
• 10.24.2023

  EP 170: FuturePod Conversations - Riel Miller and Maree Conway

  Riel Miller and Maree Conway discuss how we find and promote the crack in thinking so that people can open towards complexity and uncertainty and help them think differently to find emerging futures?

  
• 10.14.2023

  EP 169: APF Best Masters Student 2023 - Trish Mwenda

  A conversation with Trish Mwenda who was recognized as the best Masters Student work 2023 by the Association of Professional Futurists

  
• 10.04.2023

  EP 168: Futures Brought to Life - Tina Auer and Tim Boykett

  A conversation with Tina Auer and Tim Boykett from the art collective, Times Up. We discuss what they learned and wrote about in their book called Futures Brought to Life - we are not futurists. Our discussion ranges over ideas...

  
• 09.27.2023

  EP 167: APF IF Awards - Maggie Greyson, John Sweeney and Lisa Guiliani

  A conversation with Maggie Greyson, John Sweeney and Lisa Guiliani about the upcoming APF IF Awards.

  
• 09.19.2023

  EP 166: Preparing for Possibility- Kelly Kornet Weber

  A conversation with Kelly Kornet Weber who is a member of the Strategic Foresight team at Autodesk, based in Canada. We discuss her journey into the field, the differences working as an external consultant compared to being an in-house futurist....

  
• 09.08.2023

  EP 165: Breaking Free of Fate - Alex Quicho

  Alex Quicho joins Amanda Reeves to discuss the value of arts and poetics in futures work, viewing the world through the lens of tropical futures, and finding windows into the future that invite action and movement.

  
• 08.27.2023

  EP 164 : The Wild West of AI Futures - Richard Yonck

  A return interview with Richard Yonck where he surveys what he calls the Wild West of AI Futures including digital assistants, job losses, human hybrid working, ethics and social media.

  
• 08.14.2023

  EP 163 : Scaffolding Collective Resilience - Rowena Morrow

  A return interview with Rowena Morrow to hear about her work with Adaptive Cultures and the challenge of assisting organisations evolving their culture to better match their environmental complexity.

  
• 07.24.2023

  EP 162 : Reducing Avoidable Surprises - Norbert Kolos

  An interview with Norbert Kołos is the managing partner and co-founder of 4CF, a strategic foresight consultancy with nearly two decades of experience in complex foresight projects, that is based in Poland.

  
• 06.20.2023

  EP 161 : Together and Unique - Fabienne Goux-Baudiment

  A return interview with the French Futurist, Fabienne Goux-Baudiment which covers our emerging social evolution, Meritory Foresight, the new VUCA, artificial intelligence and gaming.

  
• 05.21.2023

  EP 160: Exploring Liminality (WFSF 50th Anniversary Conference) - Helga Veigl & Martin Calnan

  Our guests today are Helga Veigl and Martin Calnan talk about the upcoming 50th Anniversary conference for the World Futures Studies Federation which is being held in Paris on 25 & 26 October 2023

  
• 05.02.2023

  EP 159: Decolonial Inclusive Futures - Zan Chandler

  Our guest is Zan Chandler who is an Adjunct Professor at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada and is also Foresight analyst & educator. She is a Board Member at the Association of Professional Futurists. A member of Global Foresight Advisory...

  
• 04.27.2023

  EP 158: Facing Our Futures - Nikolas Badminton

  Nikolas Badminton FRSA is a global futurist speaker that mentors top executives and the highest levels of government to explore desirable futures, anticipate unforeseen risks, and strengthen strategic planning.

  
• 04.26.2023

  EP 157: Future Thinking Maverick- Maggie Greyson

  Maggie Greyson MDes is an award-winning professional futurist and the CEO of Futures Present. This boutique agency helps people make decisions in times of extreme uncertainty using design and futures thinking practices.

  
• 04.04.2023

  EP 157: Future Thinking Maverick- Maggie Greyson

  Do you need to be a Maverick? Or have a Maverick moment in order to create a future's culture in organizations?

  
• 03.05.2023

  EP 156: Polylogue Futures - Maya Van Leemput

  Maya Van Leemput is Senior Researcher for the Research Center Open Time | Applied Futures Research at Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and the Arts, where she also teaches Strategic Futures Orientation. Van Leemput is the UNESCO Chairholder Images of the Futures...

  
• 02.16.2023

  EP 155: Herding Yaks - Venkatesh Rao

  How can newly minted futures and foresight folk make their mark and attract the right work? What does it take to assemble an informal group of independent thinkers to collaborate at the frontier of change?Today’s guest is Venkatesh Rao -...

  
• 02.02.2023

  EP 154: Open to Variety - Stefan Bergheim

  A conversation with Dr. Stefan Bergheim. Stefan strengthens Futures Literacy in politics, business, academia, and civil society with events and processes on topics ranging from innovation via mobility and democracy to quality of life. He was an advisor to the...

  
• 01.08.2023

  EP 153: Remembering P.R. Sarkar - Building an Exploitation Free Future

  A conversation with Sohail Inayatullah and Dada Shambushivananda remembering Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (Baba). They discuss who he was, what he meant to them each and what his legacy is and hope was for an exploitation free future. And they...

  
• 12.26.2022

  EP 152: Jawn Lim - Leaving No One Behind

  A conversation with Associate Professor Jawn Lim. A design futurist at the Singapore Institute of Technology. He holds an Advance Certificate in Management, Innovation & Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Doctor of Design from...

  
• 12.17.2022

  EP 151: Victor Motti - Alternative Planetary Futures

  A returning chat with Victor Motti, Director of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), and founder of a new Think Tank in Washington DC, the Alternative Planetary Futures Institute. WFSF is a UNESCO and UN consultative partner and global NGO...

  
• 12.08.2022

  EP 150: Colin Russo - Weaving the Future

  Colin Russo is the Managing Director of Engaging Futures and he has extensive experience in running Community consultation in a range of organisations.

  
• 11.28.2022

  EP 149: Andy Hines - After Capitalism

  A reinterview with Andy Hines discussing his upcoming book After Capitalism.

  
• 11.24.2022

  EP 148: Ciela Hartanov - Where Work is Placed

  Dr. Ciela Hartanov joins us to talk about work - what it means, how we do it, and how we create a more humane futures of work.Dr. Ciela Hartanov was part of the founding team of The Google School for...

  
• 11.17.2022

  EP 147: Mina McBride - Lifestyle Foresight

  Mina works as a futurist for a Fortune 500 corporation in Central Florida, USA. She previously worked at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard’s T.H. Chan Public School of Health on a team that produced executive...

  
• 11.11.2022

  EP 146: Roger Spitz - Disruptive Futures

  A reinterview with Roger Spitz discussing the Disruptive Futures Institute, their new guidebook, existentialism and all points in between.