In this episode, we confront the rise and collapse of Italian Futurism, the avant garde movement that worshiped speed, technology, youth, and rupture at any cost. What began as radical artistic rebellion under Filippo Tommaso Marinetti quickly blurred into nationalism and ultimately aligned itself with fascism. So what went wrong? We examine how aesthetic obsession […]

In this episode of The Jewish futurism Lab, Jewish futurist and community artist Mike Wirth sits down with graphic designer Alex Duchene to explore what it means to be a neurodivergent, Jewish creative. They talk about ADHD “neuro spicey super powers,” how neurodivergence shapes their design practice, and why stories are the throughline that connects their […]

Episode Transcript: Welcome back to the Jewish futurism Lab, where we unpack Torah, tech, and tomorrow. I’m Mike Wirth, Jewish futurist, community artist, and design educator coming to you from Crowntown, Charlotte, North Carolina. In the previous episode, I talked about Shabbat as a design principle and why creative flow needs boundaries. Today, I want […]

Episode Transcript: Welcome back to the Jewish futurism [music] Lab, where we unpack Torah, tech, and tomorrow. I’m Mike Wirth,Jewish futurist, community artist, and design educator, coming to you from Crowntown, Charlotte, North Carolina.Today, we’re switching gears and we’ll talk about what happens when Jewish identity meets collage, controversy, and AI with Jewish artist Alex […]

What happens when flow has no boundaries? In Episode 4 of The Jewish Futurism Lab, I explore how creativity without limits turns into exhaustion, addiction, or production without reflection. This episode introduces Shabbat not just as religious practice, but as a design principle: a refusal built into time that prevents work from consuming the people […]

In this episode, I move from defining Jewish futurism to actually doing it. What does it look like to practice Jewish futurism in your creative work, your teaching, your community building, or your daily life? How do Jewish texts, rituals, and patterns of thought become tools for imagining futures rather than artifacts of the past? […]

In this episode, I make the case that Jewish futurism isn’t new at all. Long before rockets, algorithms, or AI, Jewish tradition was already asking future-oriented questions about survival, ethics, memory, and change. From Noah and Enoch to Babel, Joseph, exile, and Shabbat, this episode traces how Torah stories are structured around anticipating disruption, redesigning […]

Episode Transcript: Shalom and welcome to the Jewish futurism Lab where we look at Torah, tech, and tomorrow. This is episode one, which means you’re either here on purpose or you clicked the wrong link by accident. Either way, I’m glad that you’re here. My name is Mike Wirth. I’ma muralist, designer, and educator based […]