FuturePod

LaVonne Leong, APF representative who explains the awards and judging. James Allen, foresight practitioner blending intelligence analysis and complexity methods. Reanna Browne, organisational designer behind a relational foresight approach. They discuss rejecting trend reports, framing foresight as relational infrastructure, complexity-informed mapping, generative AI for hypotheses, interactive digital artifacts, and turning dilemmas into small, safe experiments.

In episode 236 Elissa Farrow returns to the Pod, and brings some friends, to talk about the second iteration of the Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium on the 26th and 27th of March

In episode 235 our guest is Dr Ewa Lombard who is a senior researcher the University of Geneva converging the realms of affective sciences and collective intelligence, focusing on sustainable decision-making that withstands the uncertainties of the future.

In episode 234 Peter is speaking to Richard Yonck who returns for his third podcast. This time Richard is here to discuss his first fiction book, Mindstock.

In episode 233 Peter shares an economics and futures journey with Vinny Tafuro including from Adam Smith to Kate Raworth and from the Theory of Moral Sentiments to Design Economics. Vinny is a founder of the Institute for Economic Evolution and is a pioneering advocate for the twenty-first-century economy that is disrupting society’s rigid institutions and beliefs.

In episode 232 Peter chats to Betty Sue Flowers, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus and a writer, editor, and international foresight consultant, with publications ranging from poetry therapy to sustainability.

In episode 231 Peter meets Fernando Gutiérrez Olaizola who is a Uruguayan-born futurist based in the United States with a passion for space and science fiction, a focus on Latin America, and a drive to identify opportunities for emerging and developing nations to participate in space-based commerce and exploration.

A conversation with Doris Viljoen about the upcoming WFSF World Conference in South Africa 29 to 31 October 2025

A conversation with Sohail Inayatullah and Otto Scharmer remembering Johan Galtung, a Norwegian sociologist and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies exploring who he was and what he meant to them on their work.

A return conversation with Andy Hines about his book, Imagining After Capitalism.