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.

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, Senior Fellow at the Centre for Post Normal Policy and Future Studies, and Executive Director at the Trans Normal Institute, discusses post normal times, the impact of the pandemic on marginalized communities, successful workshops in Bosnia, post-normal thinking in decision-making, the concept of slowing down, and building better futures in uncertain times.

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.Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

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 the challenge of uncertainty and complexity, the importance of a strong theoretical foundation in future studies, the role of imagination in future thinking, embracing diverse futures and ways of knowing, and embracing uncertainty and acting in the present.

Trish Mwenda, best Masters Student 2023, discusses her journey into futures and foresight, exploring Afrofuturism and African futurism, and her research on wearable technology for mental health intervention. She also shares her surprise and emotions upon receiving recognition for her work, her research on wearables for domestic abuse survivors, and her ideas on abuse, stress, anxiety, technology, wearables, and culture.

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.