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The Futures and Foresight community comprises a remarkable and diverse group of individuals who span, academic, commercial and social interests.

FuturePod


    • Jun 17, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 44m AVG DURATION
    • 225 EPISODES


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    EP 223: FuturePod - Longing for Normal while Standing at the Cusp - Donna Dupont

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2025 39:22


    Donna Dupont who is a former policy advisor and emergency manager who now applies foresight to strengthen decision-making and she returns to the Pod for a catchup chat.

    EP 222: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Maya van Leemput

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 62:03


    The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Maya van Leemput.

    EP 221: FuturePod - The Augmented Learner - Derek Woodgate

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 47:38


    Dr Derek Woodgate returns to the Pod after 3 plus years to talk about his new book, The Augmented Learner

    EP 220: FuturePod - Foresightful Engineering - Samista Jugwanth

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2025 47:49


    A conversation with Samista Jugwanth who is an engineer and technical director at Zutari in South Africa

    EP 219: FuturePod - Moving Beyond the Natural and Artificial - Erik Overland

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2025 42:42


    A conversation with Erik Overland about his paper, Sustainability and Futures, Moving Beyond the Natural and Artificial

    EP 218: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Rowena Morrow

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2025 64:39


    The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Rowena Morrow

    EP 217: FuturePod - The Possibility Wheel - Patricia Lustig & Gill Ringland

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025 43:33


    A conversation with Patricia Lustig and Gill Ringland about their new book, The Possibility Wheel

    EP 216: FuturePod - Global South Futures - Shermon Cruz and Katindi Sivi

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2025 48:55


    A conversation with Shermon Cruz and Katindi Sivi about a new futures community being established, the Global South Futures Community.

    EP 215: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Bhavana Nissima

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2025 59:01


    The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Bhavana Nissima.

    EP 214: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Sonja Blignaut

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2024 56:10


    The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Sonja Blignaut.

    EP 213: FuturePodX - Letters to the Future - Marcus Bussey

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2024 37:49


    Our first episode in a different style of podcast that we are calling ‘Letters to the Future', with our inaugural guest, Marcus Bussey.

    EP 212: Whales, Psychology and Futures - Trish Lavery

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2024 46:10


    Peter's guest today is Trish Lavery who is an academic and policy expert working with the School of Cybernetics, Australian National University. Her work places human behaviour at the centre of strategy, futures, and strategic foresight.

    EP 211: Love, Ephemerality and the Future - Riel Miller

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2024 37:49


    Riel Miller returns for his sixth FuturePod appearance and another deep dive into matters Futures and Foresight related.

    EP 210: Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium - Elissa Farrow & Jeanne Hoffman

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2024 24:32


    Peter chats with Elissa Farrow and Jeanne Hoffman about the Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium 3-4 April 2025 they are organising in Meanjin (Brisbane).

    EP 209: Embracing AI's disruption to Foresight - Paulo Carvalho

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2024 48:26


    Paulo Carvalho is an Educator, Innovator and Entrepreneur who has thought deeply about the disruptions and opportunities provided by Generative AI and who has just published a report on how he believes Generative AI will disrupt Foresight.

    EP 208 - Doing Good Work - Doris Viljoen

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2024 51:49


    Doris Viljoen is the Director of the Institute of Futures Research at the Stellenbosch Business School in South Africa and she explains why she has the coolest job in the world and about our responsibility to do good work that grows our field

    EP 207 - Colouring the Future - Alexis Tennent

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2024 57:36


    Alexis is a Design and Foresight Strategist in Toronto and Peter chats to her about the psychology of meeting our future self and how we can build a better relationship with that self plus also make the future more vivid by colouring the future in with thoughts and experiences. Like the experience of engaging with Nature.

    EP 206 - Ethical AI - Rose Genele

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2024 37:05


    In this episode, Amanda speaks with Rose Genele about how we can navigate the ethics of using Artificial Intelligence. Rose is a transformative leader and AI ethics advocate committed to creating ethical, resilient companies and technologies, and the host of the What Are We Going To Do With All This Future podcast. WAWGTDWATF podcast: https://rosegenele.com/wawgtdwatf-podcast/Contact Rose: https://rosegenele.com/contact/

    EP 205 - Rewilding the Imagination - Dana Klisanin

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2024 46:49


    Peter talks to Dana Klisanin who is a psychologist, and futurist. She is the founder of ReWilding: Lab and pioneer of ReWilding Leadershipâ„¢, an innovative approach that reconnects leaders with the wisdom of the natural world to foster creativity, resilience, and sustainability.

    EP 204 - Disrupt with Impact - Roger Spitz

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2024 52:53


    Roger Spitz returns for a chat about his new book Disrupt with Impact. Roger is a Foresight advisor, venture capitalist, an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum's Global Foresight Network, the President of Techistential and he also chairs the Disruptive Futures Institute

    EP 203 - From Living a Life Wrong to Mind Time - Gareth Priday

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2024 45:15


    A chat with Gareth Priday who is lead Foresight practitioner at Action Foresight and a director at Living Labs Innovation Network and Ethical Fields. His interests are many but his passion is how people think about the future and how, as professionals, we can best work with that.

    EP 202 - Amplifying Cognition - Ross Dawson

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024 47:35


    A chat with Ross Dawson who is a futurist, keynote speaker, podcaster, strategy advisor, author, and entrepreneur about his journey into the field, how he supports organisations trying to use Foresight and his optimism about our ability to amplify cognition.

    EP 201 - The Hard Graft Policy Craft - James Balzer

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2024 43:51


    James Balzer is a policy analyst in the New South Wales Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. He was recently admitted into the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners Fellowship supported by the School of International Futures.

    EP 200 - A Milestone Episode

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2024 76:46


    To mark our 200th episode of FuturePod we have assembled the whole FuturePod team, who are interviewed by a special guest host, Dr Stuart Candy.

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    EP 199 - Patterns of Strategy - Patrick Hoverstadt

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2024 47:20


    Patrick Hoverstadt is a Director and Consultant at Fractal Consulting and the author of The Fractal Organisation and Patterns of Strategy. Patrick is a viable system model (VSM) expert and we cover his deep views on systems thinking.

    EP 198 - Natural Foresight - Frank Spencer

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2024 47:17


    A return conversation with Frank Spencer that covers a lot and specifically the new book Natural Foresight

    EP 197 - Untying Cows, Changing Lives - Aminata Mansaray

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2024 37:06


    A conversation with Aminata Mansaray, a Strategic Foresight practitioner in Sierra Leone about how she is changing communities and lives using Strategic Foresight.

    EP 196 - Polycrisis - Michael Lawrence and Megan Shipman

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2024 44:01


    A conversation with Michael Lawrence and Megan Shipman who are from the Cascade Institute which is a Canadian research centre at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia about Polycrisis and the community they are supporting to understanding, mitigating and managing it.

    EP 195 - Unlocking Change The Bookcast - Rob Roe

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2024 44:01


    Rob Roe returns to FuturePod to discuss his latest venture in the world of managing change. A bookcast that distils the best of the books on change that Rob has found through his extensive reading.

    EP 194 - Why Foresight Matters! - John Smart

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2024 61:01


    John Smart, the CEO of Foresight U, joins us to chat about his book ‘An Introduction to Foresight'. Among many things he expands on his three mottos for investing in foresight and doing good work sustainably.

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    EP 193 - Complex Mess - Meredith Bowden & Dave Godden

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2024 42:54


    Meredith Bowden and Dave Godden host a community called Complex Mess that supports people who are looking for new and different ways to engage with complex messes. They explain how to Coddiwomple is to travel purposefully toward an as-yet-unknown destination.

    EP 192 - An Honest Exploration of Uncertainty - Kristin Alford, Maggie Greyson & Elizabeth Merritt

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2024 46:20


    A guest conversation between Kristin Alford, Maggie Greyson and Elizabeth Merritt starts from the question about how Museums of the Future create agency and Hope and what can be gleaned from that for general Foresight application

    EP 191 - The Inner Dimensions of the Future - Jay Gary

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2024 41:45


    Jay Gary returns for a chat and we discuss leadership development, institutional support, practice development and how his faith is foundational to his work and purpose

    EP 190 - Somatic Futures: Speculations of Embodiment - Rodney Frederickson

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2024 47:40


    A conversation with Rodney Frederickson who is a design futurist, abstract artist, storyteller, philosopher, game designer, martial artist and an occasional poet about his case for somatic futures.

    EP 189 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Signs of Change & Envisioning Future Humanitarian Aid

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2024 48:10


    We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Petranka Malcheva about their double award for the project embedding long-term thinking in Welsh government and Laurie Smith and the work of NESTA and Prospect magazine around a Minister for the Future hypothetical.

    EP 188 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Embedding Long-Term Thinking & Minister for the Future

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2024 50:32


    We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Petranka Malcheva about their double award for the project embedding long-term thinking in Welsh government and Laurie Smith and the work of NESTA and Prospect magazine around a Minister for the Future hypothetical.

    EP 187 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Dreams and Disruptions & Young Voices

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2024 59:02


    We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from the team from the Center for Engaged Foresight in the Philippines and their game, Dreams and Disruptions and the Teach the Future gang and their incredible project - World Futures Day, Young Voices.

    EP 186 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Fashion Futuring & Healing Past Trauma

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2024 41:58


    We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Clarice Garcia and her toolkit called values Driven Transitions for Fashion's Imagined Futures and Steven Lichty and his work in Kenya breaking the cycle of Intergenerational trauma.

    EP 185 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Expanding Imaginations and Intergenerational Wellbeing

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2024 48:53


    We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Mikko Dufva from the amazing SITRA and their work with Weak Signals and how they make them ‘real' and Valery Wichman and their work in the Cook Islands to shape a hundred year vision anchored in collective wellbeing.

    EP 184 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Navigating Community Change & AI Enabled Foresight

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2024 45:53


    We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. 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

    EP 183 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Transformative Food & Museum Repatriation

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2024 50:44


    We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. 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.

    EP 182 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Democracy Games & PAN

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2024 35:20


    We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Randy Lubin and Mike Masnick and their award winning game, Futurecast, developed for the UN Global Pulse to help fragile democracies and Alex de las Heras whose documentary essay set in different locations in the Andean region exploring future time, memory and decolonisation.

    EP 181 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - Interspecies Surrogacy & Utopia

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2024 49:48


    We are delighted to continue our new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. 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.Interviewed by: Peter Hayward with Maggie Greyson and John Sweeney

    EP 180 - APF IF 2023 Awards Spotlight - The Plantiverse & Gen Z Innovations Tour

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2024 52:28


    We are delighted to start a new podcast series based on the Winners and honorable mentions from the APF 2023 IF Awards. Today we hear from Cecilia Tham , from Futurity Systems in Barcelona, Spain and their award winning work onthe Plantiverse and Bronwyn Williams and the Gen Z Innovations Tour for corporate leaders developed by the team from Flux Trends in South Africa.

    EP 179 - Eleven Tomorrows : A Futures Film - David Lindsay-Wright

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2024 59:02


    A return conversation with Dr David Lindsay-Wright who is a Futurist, Educator and Filmmaker about his latest venture. A communities view of their preferred futures(s) for Brisbane, Australia and that approach to futures work as compared to expert or decision-makers driven futures work.

    EP 178 - What Government Could Be - Thea Snow

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2024 42:23


    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 changemakers to reimagine what government could be.

    EP 177 - Foresight & Innovation - Patrick van der Duin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2024 59:02


    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.

    EP 176: Exploring the Future Through Games - Randy Lubin

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2024 38:16


    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.

    EP 175: None of us are OK until all of us are OK - Adam Drake

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2024 52:46


    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.

    EP 174: Trans Normal Futures - Christopher Jones

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2023 44:58


    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.

    EP 173: The Future of Sex and Intimacy - 2023 APF Masters Group Winners

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2023 52:46


    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.

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