FuturePod

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.

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.

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.

Richard Yonck, AI Futures surveyor, surveys the Wild West of AI Futures including digital assistants, job losses, human hybrid working, ethics, and social media. Topics covered: history and development of AI, rapid advancements in AI technology, potential impact of digital assistants, challenges of managing AI systems in social media, potential job losses from AI advancements, 'AI for good' movement.

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 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.

Our guests today are 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 & 26 October 2023