Published inTomorrowlands·Nov 24, 2022Why do we need Tomorrowlands?Having shared some thoughts on what a Tomorrowland can be, the obvious next question is — why bother? What do these physical spaces for futuring bring to participants and communities? Really we should be asking Tomorrowlands participants to write this blog, and one day we hope the community will grow…Youth4 min readYouth4 min read
Mar 16, 2022Survey sludge — A story about the future of youth voice in 2043I wrote this story for a Post Carbon Moves event. Post Carbon Moves is a movement and community coming together to imagine optimistic futures of climate change, but to probe beyond utopias, and to interrogate some of the complexities and messiness of living with the impacts of climate change. I’ll…Future5 min readFuture5 min read
Sep 3, 2021Imagining the future with young peopleA year of doing and learning as an NGFP fellow In August 2020 I won the NGFP walkabout award, a prize to support U25 year-olds engage young people with foresight. For this fellowship, I decided to develop experimental foresight methods to engage young people. …Foresight5 min readForesight5 min read
Jan 21, 2020Member-onlyDemocratised Scientific FuturesHow can design methods add a public voice to scientific research questions? — Technological and scientific change will radically transform the world we know. We vote on daily politics but how can we, the public, have the opportunity to shape the technological landscape of the world 50 years from now? What kind of future do we want? Whose future is it? …Science11 min readScience11 min read
Dec 6, 2019Why Science Must Reward FailureAny scientist will tell you that science is a process of trial and error. Error, however, is rarely rewarded (and often not even admitted to) by the scientific community. This is a result of stagnation in the way that scientific discoveries are made public, with scientific publishing seemingly stuck in…Science6 min readScience6 min read
