We hear from Mikko Dufva from the amazing SITRA and their work with Weak Signals and Valery Wichman about work in the Cook Islands to shape a hundred year vision.

Today we hear from Petra Hurtado and her work integrating Foresight into the planning field and Mike Jackson and his venture, Preempt, an AI Foresight platform.

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.

Today we hear from Randy Lubin and Mike Masnick and their award-winning game, FutureCast, and Alex de las Heras whose documentary essay set in the Andean region explores future time, memory and decolonisation.

Today we hear from Luna Mrozik Gawler, an artist, writer and scholar based in Melbourne, Australia and her award-winning work on Interspecies Surrogacy and Jennifer Williams and Matjaz Vidmar and their Utopia Labs experimental futures process.

We are delighted to start a new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Our guests today are Cecilia Tham and Bronwyn Williams.

A return conversation with Dr David Lindsay-Wright who is a Futurist, Educator and Filmmaker about his latest venture.

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 change makers to reimagine what government could be.

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.

Randy Lubin is an award-winning foresight games designer. In this episode, he describes how be brings these two disciplines together, and gives advice for other games-curious futures practitioner.

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.

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.

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.

Tracey Follows is back to put the big questions of identity to FuturePod.

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

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?

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

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.

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

A conversation with Kelly Kornet Weber who is the Senior Strategic Foresight Specialist at Autodesk 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.

Alex Quicho joins us 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.

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.

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.

An interview with Norbert Kołos. Nobert 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.

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.

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 and 26 October 2023.

Zan, a Foresight Analyst and Educator, helps clients, learners and mentees to understand the nature and implications of change and discover ways thrive in the face of complexity.

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.

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.

In partnership with photographer Bram Goots, Maya Van Leemput runs a long-term independent project for exploring images of the future, combining conversation-based approaches and visual ethnography with multi-media co-creation.

The continuation of the ReInterview started in podcast 113. Richard discusses his new book, Deleting Dystopia: Re-asserting human priorities in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

Sarah Dillon and Claire Craig provide a theory and practice for gathering narrative evidence that will complement and strengthen, not distort, other forms of evidence, including that from science.

Thomas explains how constructing and interpreting narratives are critical to create a shared future that leaders are aiming for.

Richard returns to discuss what our ‘skewed narratives’ might be and how these prevent us from taking the necessary action.

Marcus talks about his futures leadership journey since we last spoke to him; leadership models and institutions, expectations of colleagues and wisdom embodiment.

Listen to Karen’s futures journey, from youth activism in Mt Gambier, South Australia to development projects in Peru using the technology of participation.

Adam tells the story of the Mont Fleur Scenario Project, how he uses scenarios to create a space to act together to transform a system, and why power, love, and justice are central to his impactful facilitation practice.

Joe’s is revisiting his earlier work as a Futures Intelligence Analyst. He explains how futures intelligence has to be in service of something.

Derek explains how abandonment led him to seek performance, being a rebel and finding alternative and ignored cultures.

Bridgette discusses futuring as an act of rebellion and how that tries to coexist with respect. She also shares her latest spice nut “lockdown” recipe.

Tamás explains how futures approaches like scanning, pathways and visions operate in both primary school and university students.

Kieran believes that young people working with their communities can learn resilience skills and make a real difference.

Allison explains how living a life without regret keeps her energised and focused on long term goals. How by using counterfactuals she flipped herself from angst to hope.

Luke explains how developing alternative futures is a very different cognitive action from actually making good decisions. He also thinks that the global rise in mental health issues shows that we cannot quickly adapt and respond to changes around us.

Bill discusses his new book Beyond Knowledge and explains how technology is driving an Age of Consciousness.

The FuturePod team get together to look back on the first 100 conversations, look forward to where FuturePod might be going, and farewell one of our founding members.

Jim is a financial futurist. He discusses the art of speculation and how he uses trends and cycles to find positions to take. He explains how the discount rate shows how long you are prepared to wait for a future outcome.

Erik is philosophically based futures researcher who supports policy makers develop public policy. He questions what we think of as nature and what is a natural phenomenon.

Sylvia has been thirsty for knowledge and culture throughout her life. She embraced philosophy, fiction and finally futures research to build a better society.

Susanna speaks about how she creates concentric circles of support, engages embodied intelligence, and helps practitioners think in non-linear ways.

As radical uncertainty undermines how we make sense of the world, ourselves in that world and what we do, Mike has three principles that help us navigate.

Paul has been studying how strategy can emerge from structure, relationship and good people doing good work.

Tracey looks for the clues to the future. She argues for the value in talking to a wide range of people about their thoughts and expectations about the future.

Richard has been thinking about narrative management and how it is used to attempt to control society.

Chris is a synthesizer of culture, and has been influenced by Lovelock's Gaia thesis and ideas of Deep Time. Listen to him speak about dark ecology, global weirding and non-Western Futures.

Conversation Question: “Should the field abandon preferred futures?” Riel Miller and John Sweeney return for part 2 of the conversation and are joined by another former guest, Josh Floyd.

Lidia believes that our active engagement through death and grief, what she calls Death Consciousness, is a vital and energetic capability, especially helpful in our current times.

Alex is passionate about better understanding how to use the methods we employ to assist people. He believes that through collaborating with other disciplines, we can become more influential in the public discourse.

Tyler believes that our values are key in moving forward in the face of uncertainty. That through synchronizing the minds of groups all work, especially foresight, starts from the best place with the best contents of consciousness.

Cherie believes that people should be allowed to experience timescapes in ways that make sense to them and that ‘Futurity’ speaks better to the indigenous understanding of the future.

Sara talks about the correlation between fossil fuels and authoritarian governments, how using the empirical futures frame helps her work in very normative spaces and how the distillation of crazy in extremist groups can be a force for reversing their support.

Gill discusses a wide range of her experiences using Foresight. She tells us about the European Commission’s decade long engagement with Foresight and how it became comfortable in using it.

David walks us through his ideas that Futures projects should be seen to do something in the real world and that he believes that now is the time for a FOPP - a Future Orientated Political Party. He believes that we lack high quality images of possible futures.

Njeri explains how the Rwanda genocide for her was a turning point where she realised how important agency was rather than just awareness.

Jerome discusses where the Delphi came from and why is so useful, the invention of the Real-Time Delphi and the self-actualization economy and how it could operate.

Dada takes you through his distinctive journey from business and economics, to becoming a yogic monk. He discusses the yoga of restraint and how we need to minimise the disparities in life but simultaneously maximise the diversity too.

Ruben thinks we are between dreams and that we need to escape modernity which has delivered much but now imprisons us by de-emphasising our interdependence with the natural world and each other.

Richard is a pattern finder who is passionate about our relationship to technology. He believes our times are calling for a new mythology in our relationship with technology.

In this latest podcast, Maree Conway and Peter Hayward return for a conversation. Five more questions were asked from our FuturePod audience.

Roope places Arts at the centre of his futures work. He is seeking a joyful and sustainable transformation of democracy and our institutions.

Thomas teaches his students to be Philosophers-in-action. He believes that there is no learning without emotional shock and he wants us to deepen our conversations to decomplexify our physical reality.

Kimberly discusses both the challenges and rewards of development work in West Africa, and explaining foresight to your mother. She also walks us through the Houston Foresight Framework to exploring the future.

Joining us in this special episode are our past guests, Richard Slaughter and Tom Lombardo. They share their memories and experiences of Wendell Bell, a giant in the field of Futures.

Anita says that ethics is how we work with our power and support others. She works across corporate clients who wish to operate with sensitivity to their impacts, and also how community resources, like water, are shared.

Listen to Jerry Glenn, Ted Gordon and Paul Saffo from the Millennium Project speak about the newly released set of COVID scenarios for the American Red Cross.

Conversation question: “How can we make our individual and collective foresight capacities ‘real’ in futures practice and processes?“

Roger believes that we need to allow the disruptive patterns to emerge to make the wisest choices. He also speaks of embracing the beginners mind to lead ourselves, our organisations and our societies through an increasingly disruptive world.

Shermon chats about history, culture, gross national cool and how the story of Rip Van Winkle is a great way to introduce futures thinking.

Conversation question: “What are some of the possible scenarios of the USA post-election period (whoever wins) that sees changes that begin the journey to bring America together rather than to drive it further apart?“

Jordi discusses how change itself is changing, and how we need to up our game to better navigate our lives. He also speaks of how the dignity of younger generations can explain their anger with how post normal times are being managed.

Mark talks about the unlikely connection of horse manure and foresight, and explains how ‘pre’ mortems could improve decision-making. He also speaks of his interest in life extension.

Rebecca explains the importance of effective and powerful communication and she discusses whether generational change is 'a thing' or not.

Conversation question: “What next for the field of foresight? How can we move on from the foundation methods and tools that seem to have us locked in their grip? How can we become more relevant and more practical? How can we approach design from different ontological frameworks.“

Hazel saw first hand the evolution of technology and business with its impacts on political power and from that came her life work, tracking and promoting the technologies and mind sets for the Solar Age.

Bryan discusses scanning as a client service and product, the notion of human identity, the globalisation of culture and the future of Higher Education.

A futures powerhouse and greatly respected globally, Wendy speaks about art, poetry and music; the tools of culture, to create more evocative, vivid and more densely experiential futures, and much more.

Conversation question: “Should the field abandon preferred futures? Recently, Richard Slaughter even called into question the efficacy of 'alternative futures'...How can (and must) the futures field shift in both theory and practice to deal with this core tension?“

Charles describes how he finds it easy to have conversations about the future with everyone he meets. He explains the use of his favourite tool, the Futures Cone, and his long-time engagement with Schools and Futures.

Yvonne's is a story of how we grow up as human beings and also the journey of both inward and outward honesty.

Fabienne takes you through her meta-methodology that frames how she does foresight work and she also discusses how to approach wicked futures like handling a ball of wool.

Tanja, raised into Nelson Mandela's revolution in South Africa works all around the world trying to support a good Anthropocene.

John Sweeney is blazing a new path for Futures in Central Asia, namely Kazakhstan. John's passions are Futures Gaming, and working with diverse communities. He is an experienced consultant and educator who is also a very entertaining interviewee.

As one of the few women working in the fields of foreign affairs, international security and defense, Kate Delaney’s career has morphed into a successful business in Australia applying her own brand of Futures and Foresight in Government and Not For Profit organisations.

Jim Dator is a Futurist who in someways did not have a past. Raised without significant men in his life his approach to Futures is both unique and so valuable for all of us.

Rene Rohrbeck explains his maturity model for organisational foresight, describes how corporate foresight moves beyond just trend analysis and also gives some interesting advice on parenting children too.

In quite an amazing career trajectory, studying strategic foresight provided new tools for Rob in his quest to find ways to introduce new ways of working.

Sohail is a global futurist whose work reaches from Australia into Asia. A prolific writer, seasoned academic and experienced consultant. He is the complete package. Come hear how he does his magic.

Tanja is an emerging futurist who has merged the best of the German and Australian approach to Futures. Coming from a corporate background she is now a freelancer who is creating a network of freelancers with a platform that has global ambition.

Dr Cindy Frewen consults, speaks and writes on the future of cities and design futures. After 25 years as an architect, Cindy merged her company with a sustainable design firm, marking her shift to longer term thinking and use of foresight tools to support sustainable city and public work designs. 

Appreciating the gifts of traditional systems allows Kieran to support individuals and conventional institutions and see what needs to endure, even as change occurs, and new visions of ‘a good life’ are imagined. 

Dr Joseph Voros speaks about his emergence into becoming a foresight educator, the development of the award-winning Generic Foresight Process (GFP) framework, and his abiding focus on the possible futures of humanity and human civilisation, informed by using Big History as the framing perspective.

Steve was the Foresight Manager at global brewer Fosters who first thought Foresight could help him predict the future and now he believes that Foresight can empower people to create the futures they want.

Marcus is a futurist, academic and poet. Hear him explain the anticipatory aesthetic and how he thinks it is very necessary to disturb the peace.

Futures principles and tools have been instrumental in helping Cath build an impressive consultancy career, supporting organisations to maximize social cause and impact.

Jay has had a long career as a consultant and educator. Hear about his twin passions of promoting leadership and assisting communities build powerful visions of their desired future.

Bridgette is a skilled and experienced contributor to the Futures space and has built her career as a feminist pracademic, successfully combining both her design principles and strategic foresight in her teaching work at Swinburne and her consulting work.

In part 2 of his interview Richard discusses the emerging futures, how he explains foresight to people and closes with his advice on how to live in a world that is on the edge of disaster.  

In part 1 of his interview Richard discusses his beginnings, his inspirations, his mentors and his journey into the foresight community. He also discusses his favourite methods and concepts.

As an international powerhouse, hear a small sliver of Richard's wisdom in this podcast, and how alternative thinking about today and tomorrow is at the core of his practice.

Rowena taught foresight for many years and so listen to her teach you about Hope Theory, consultancy and performing organisational roles.

Peter shows how he starts with how people have learned faulty thinking about the future through science and history and shows them how contingent thinking is a better way to think about the future.

Susan is a leader amongst Australia's futures community. An innovator and champion of diversity hear how Susan practiced her craft and how she worked on company boards to make them thought leaders and to make better decisions.

As a macrohistorian, Mike works at many levels, from local through to Global to support much-needed radical new thinking and new systems in an emerging networked and collaborative society.

Maree explains how the 'Foresight Switch' is turned on in people through doing foresight processes and how to be open to the future and to look for diversity of perspectives.

Josh speaks about his early appreciation of the bio-physical context of the world and his 20 year journey of enquiry into discovering new thinking tools and new habits to look at and make sense of the world.

Jose is the living example of a mutant futurist who believes we live as communities of faith around our shared and emerging futures and who practices experimental futures.

Paul explains his pragmatic approach to working with the people and organisations that want to make a difference.

Peter speaks about solving problems through deep enquiry, and the power of scenarios as a conversation tool for discussing and exploring futures.

Simon has successfully developed a professional business, presenting and applying foresight practice and principles.