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FuturePod gathers voices from the international field of Futures and Foresight. Through a series of interviews, the founders of the field and emerging leaders share their stories, tools and experiences. Created in Melbourne, Australia. Interviewing guests from across the globe.
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Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
EP 84: The Ongoing Ascent of Humankind - David Lindsay-Wright
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
David walks us through his ideas that Futures projects should be seen to do something in the real world and that he believes that now is the time for a FOPP - a Future Orientated Political Party. He believes that we lack high quality images of possible futures.

Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
EP 85: Blowing the Cobwebs off your Mind - Gill Ringland
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Gill discusses a wide range of her experiences using Foresight. She tells us about the European Commission’s decade long engagement with Foresight and how it became comfortable in using it.

Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
EP 86: Another Day in Paradox - Sara Robinson
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Sara talks about the correlation between fossil fuels and authoritarian governments, how using the empirical futures frame helps her work in very normative spaces and how the distillation of crazy in extremist groups can be a force for reversing their support.

Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
EP 87: Story, Relation and Adapting - Cherie Minniecon
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Cherie believes that people should be allowed to experience timescapes in ways that make sense to them and that ‘Futurity’ speaks better to the indigenous understanding of the future.

Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
EP 88: Finding the Gap in the Future - Tyler Mongan
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tyler believes that our values are key in moving forward in the face of uncertainty. That through synchronizing the minds of groups all work, especially foresight, starts from the best place with the best contents of consciousness.

Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
EP 89: Empirical Research and Dialogue - Alex Fergnani
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Alex is passionate about better understanding how to use the methods we employ to assist people. He believes that through collaborating with other disciplines, we can become more influential in the public discourse.

Monday Nov 29, 2021
EP 90: Death Consciousness - Lidia Zuin
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Lidia believes that our active engagement through death and grief, what she calls Death Consciousness, is a vital and energetic capability, especially helpful in our current times.

Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Conversation Question: “Should the field abandon preferred futures?” Riel Miller and John Sweeney return for part 2 of the conversation and are joined by another former guest, Josh Floyd.

Monday Nov 29, 2021
EP 92: The Gentle Cassandra - Christopher Jones
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Chris is a synthesizer of culture, and has been influenced by Lovelock's Gaia thesis and ideas of Deep Time. Listen to him speak about dark ecology, global weirding and non-Western Futures.

Monday Nov 29, 2021
EP 93: The ReInterviews - Richard Hames
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Richard has been thinking about narrative management and how it is used to attempt to control society.