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FuturePod

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The Futures and Foresight community comprises a remarkable and diverse group of individuals who span, academic, commercial and social interests.

Episodes

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 government and Laurie Smith and the work of NESTA and Prospect magazine around a Minister for the Future hypothetical.

May 19, 202448 minSeason 1Ep. 189

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 government and Laurie Smith and the work of NESTA and Prospect magazine around a Minister for the Future hypothetical.

May 12, 202451 minSeason 1Ep. 188

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, Dreams and Disruptions and the Teach the Future gang and their incredible project - World Futures Day, Young Voices.

May 06, 202459 minSeason 1Ep. 187

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 Steven Lichty and his work in Kenya breaking the cycle of Intergenerational trauma.

Apr 29, 202442 minSeason 1Ep. 186

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 they make them ‘real’ and Valery Wichman and their work in the Cook Islands to shape a hundred year vision anchored in collective wellbeing.

Apr 18, 202449 minSeason 1Ep. 185

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 to transform food systems and Elizabeth Merritt and her work assisting Museums use futures tools to help the repatriation of cultural artifacts.

Apr 12, 202451 minSeason 1Ep. 183

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 UN Global Pulse to help fragile democracies and Alex de las Heras whose documentary essay set in different locations in the Andean region exploring future time, memory and decolonisation.

Apr 10, 202435 minSeason 1Ep. 182

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 award-winning work on Interspecies Surrogacy and Jennifer Williams and Matjaz Vidmar and their Utopia Labs experimental futures process. Interviewed by : Peter Hayward with Maggie Greyson and John Sweeney...

Apr 06, 202450 minSeason 1Ep. 181

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 onthe Plantiverse and Bronwyn Williams and the Gen Z Innovations Tour for corporate leaders developed by the team from Flux Trends in South Africa.

Apr 04, 202452 minSeason 1Ep. 180

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 driven futures work.

Mar 10, 202459 minSeason 1Ep. 179

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.

Mar 05, 202442 minSeason 1Ep. 178

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.

Jan 31, 202459 minSeason 1Ep. 177

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.

Jan 22, 202438 minSeason 1Ep. 176

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.

Dec 13, 202345 minSeason 1Ep. 174

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 like the Art of Hosting, Imagination as a muscle, Caring for the Future Futures is a Verb.

Oct 04, 202353 minSeason 1Ep. 168

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. And we delve into what collaboration really means.

Sep 19, 202353 minSeason 1Ep. 166

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.

Sep 08, 202347 minSeason 1Ep. 165

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.

Aug 27, 202344 minSeason 1Ep. 164

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.

Aug 14, 202354 minSeason 1Ep. 163

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.

Jul 24, 202353 minSeason 1Ep. 162

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.

Jun 20, 202352 minSeason 1Ep. 161
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