FuturePod

EP 84: The Ongoing Ascent of Humankind - David Lindsay-Wright

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.

EP 85: Blowing the Cobwebs off your Mind - Gill Ringland

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.

EP 86: Another Day in Paradox - Sara Robinson

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.

EP 87: Story, Relation and Adapting - Cherie Minniecon

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.

EP 88: Finding the Gap in the Future - Tyler Mongan

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.

EP 89: Empirical Research and Dialogue - Alex Fergnani

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.

EP 90: Death Consciousness - Lidia Zuin

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.

EP 91: FuturePod Conversations - Riel Miller, John Sweeney & Josh Floyd Part 2

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.

EP 92: The Gentle Cassandra - Christopher Jones

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.

EP 93: The ReInterviews - Richard Hames

Richard has been thinking about narrative management and how it is used to attempt to control society.