Podcast appearances and mentions of stuart candy

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.

Sascha Poflepp was a German artist, collaborator, and friend. We dedicated The Manual of Design Fiction to him. It's important not to forget his contributions to creative thinking and making. In that spirit, I managed to extract the audio tape from a panel I organized at SxSW back in 2010 on the topic of Design Fiction in which Sascha contributed a remarkably clear and cogent perspective through his own work. Also contributing to the panel were Stuart Candy, Jake Dunagen, Jennifer Leonard, Bruce Sterling, and myself. You can see Sasha's slides cued to his presentation here: https://youtu.be/XDp_TsKqk3o

Johanna Hoffman is a designer, urbanist and strategist exploring the ties between design, planning, fiction and futures. She's the founder of Design for Adaptation, a studio using strategic planning, interactive storytelling and speculative design to survey the impacts of potential futures and spur proactive adaptation. Her new book is called Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Cities we Need. Johanna and I talk about strategies to make the intangibility and overwhelm of the future more personal and inspiring, and how we can integrate grief into shifting narratives. We discuss how national mythologies translate into the creation of different landscapes, the pros and cons of modern cities, and how important it is to give ourselves permission to lean into our creativity, imagination, and confidence in order to manifest big ideas. Johanna's book recommendations: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Viral Justice by Ruha Benjamin, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and the work of Eric Klineberg, Ursula Le Guin, Stuart Candy, and Octavia Butler.Find Johanna at johannahoffman.com and on InstagramSongs featured: “The Fear” by Ben Howard and “Let Me Down Easy” by Gang of YouthsHow to support the show:* Rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes* Become a paid subscriber on Substack* Visit my website - AnyaKaats.com & Find me on InstagramA Millennial's Guide to Saving the World is a reader and listener-supported project. If you find this content valuable and have the means to donate financially, please consider becoming a paid subscriber for only $5/month. Get full access to A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World at anyakaats.substack.com/subscribe

Richard Sandford is Professor of Heritage Evidence Foresight and Policy at the UCL Institute of Sustainable Heritage (Twitter, LinkedIn). He interested in how we think about the future and how we connect it to the past.  We discuss in depth how heritage can be a source of useful and productive stances towards the future. Key line from Richard for me: "Change s coming...If you're looking at the future, perhaps our job now is to preserve that sense of identity that allows us to act without reifying the things that we do need to let go."LinksRichard's key paper (£) laying out how he thinks lived futures should be the focus of futures researchers and heritage, rather than history, offers the context for developing lived futures.UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) on Futures Literacy.Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies.Stuart Candy on Design and Futures. Rodney Harrison and "future-making".Rupert Read on the need "to build lifeboats to carry as many as possible of us through the storms that are coming".Gillespie and Zittoun -- Imagination in Human and Cultural DevelopmentMore on Three Horizons method here.Courses at UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage.Link to get Richard's email address.More on Tony Hodgson here.Timings0:50 - Q1 What are you doing now? And how did you get there?11:10 - Q2. What is the future you are trying to create, and why?27:33 -- BONUS QUESTION: Is the rise of imagination activities a sign that we have run out of road and trying to imagine something different?31:10 - Q3. What are your priorities for the next few years, and why?38:14 - Q4. If someone was inspired to follow those priorities, what should they do next?41:45 - Q5. If your younger self was starting their career now, what advice would you give them?43: 34 - Q6. Who would you nominate to answer these questions, because you admire their approach?46:06 - Q7. Is there anything else important you feel you have to say?More hereTwitter: Powerful_TimesWebsite hub: here.Please do like and subscribe, to help others find the podcast.Thank you for listening! -- David

Stuart Candy is another of the new generation of hybrid futures practitioners who works with thinking, imagery, narrative and experience to create powerful and personal experiences in both academic, policy and life spaces.Stuart Candy has integrated Futures, Media and Experiential learning to create a hybrid and creative approach that for him is about enabling futures work live up to its potential to create better for futures for all. In his interview Stuart ranges over storytelling, emotional labour and the juxtaposition of the mundane and dystopian. A wonderful narrative journey of the integration of art, practice and inspiration.

Bandersnatch allows the viewer to make choices for the main character. It is therefore as much a game as it is a standard story. What is the difference? In standard stories, the character is determined to act as the writer has scripted him. In a game we are free to determine alternative actions for him. He is thus still determined, by us. We viewers feel free. But are we, really? Do we want to be?  Guest: Stuart Candy https://design.cmu.edu/user/1459

A question that has arisen in my research around imagination and also in the recent interview I did with Stuart Candy was what would it look like if a local, city or national government were to create a ‘Ministry of Imagination’? If the revitalisation of the imagination were felt to be so important that its protection, enhancement and cultivation needed a bespoke department, one that cross-cut other departments, attempting to raise the imaginative capacity of the entire administration. It was an idea that really stuck with me.

A question that has arisen in my research around imagination and also in the recent interview I did with Stuart Candy was what would it look like if a local, city or national government were to create a ‘Ministry of Imagination’? If the revitalisation of the imagination were felt to be so important that its protection, enhancement and cultivation needed a bespoke department, one that cross-cut other departments, attempting to raise the imaginative capacity of the entire administration. It was an idea that really stuck with me.

A question that has arisen in my research around imagination and also in the recent interview I did with Stuart Candy was what would it look like if a local, city or national government were to create a ‘Ministry of Imagination’? If the revitalisation of the imagination were felt to be so important that its protection, enhancement and cultivation needed a bespoke department, one that cross-cut other departments, attempting to raise the imaginative capacity of the entire administration. It was an idea that really stuck with me.

Stuart Candy is a professional futurist and is an Associate Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Melon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His collaborative Experiential Futures practice brings possible scenarios to life through the creation of tangible artifacts and immersive situations which give people a very real taste of how different versions of the future might turn out. As you’ll hear he playfully brings future scenarios alive in the present, through collaborations with designers, artists, actors, activists, businesses and more, and he has worked in many different places. He was recently at the Transition Design Symposium at Dartington, and I took the opportunity to sit under a tree in the shade on a gloriously sunny day for the following fascinating conversation with Stuart about the future, the imagination and the creative approaches he has developed.

Why does the past matter? In our fast-paced, future-facing world, what's the value and importance of studying history, and how can we do it better? And what part do our answers to these questions ultimately play in shaping times to come? Dr Stuart Candy presented this public lecture as part of the State History Conference 'Hearts & Minds: Revaluing the Past' and the Open State program, held in October 2017. It was supported by Museums Galleries Australia (SA) and University Collections, University of Adelaide. In the recorded talk Dr Stuart Candy explores the value of understanding our past when it comes to looking to the future. Dr Stuart Candy is leader of Foresight + Innovation for Arup Australasia, based in the Melbourne office. He brings to the role a decade of experience in futures practice across multiple sectors. He has worked on projects for the governments of Australia, Korea, Hawaii, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, and has also done foresight events or projects with General Electric, Autodesk, Frog Design, Institute for the Future, IDEO, and the TED conference in Long Beach, California. Stuart works at the intersection of design and foresight, and has an international reputation in the design of experiential futures – translating scenarios into immersive situations and tangible artefacts. This free public lecture was part of the History Trust of South Australia's Talking History series. For upcoming events visit: history.sa.gov.au/whats-on/events/

Miten tuoda tulevaisuudet nykyhetkeen ja tehdä niistä konkreettisia? Mitä on elämyksellinen ennakointi? Mikko Dufvan vieraan Stuart Candy ja aiheena etnografinen elämyksellinen ennakointi. Jakso on englanniksi.Stuart Candy on futuristi, kouluttaja, taiteilija ja muotoilija, joka pyrkii työssään lisäämään ennakointikykyä käyttämällä monipuolisesti eri medioita. Hän toimii apulaisprofessorina Carnegie Mellon yliopistossa Pittsburgissa ja opetti aiemmin mm. OCAD yliopistossa Torontossa.LisätietoaEthnographic experiential futuresNurturepodDesign Develop and Transform konferenssiA temporary futures instituteStuartin blogi

Long Conversation, an epic relay of one-to-one conversations among some of the Bay Area's most interesting minds, took place over 6 hours in San Francisco on Saturday October 16, 02010. Interpreting the Long Conversation in real time was a data visualization performance by Sosolimited; an art and technology studio out of M.I.T. Long Conversation was presented with a live performance of 1,000 minutes of composer Jem Finer's Longplayer.

Long Conversation, an epic relay of one-to-one conversations among some of the Bay Area's most interesting minds, took place over 6 hours in San Francisco on Saturday October 16, 02010. Interpreting the Long Conversation in real time was a data visualization performance by Sosolimited; an art and technology studio out of M.I.T. Long Conversation was presented with a live performance of 1,000 minutes of composer Jem Finer's Longplayer.