FuturePod

In episode 236 Elissa Farrow returns to the Pod, and brings some friends, to talk about the second iteration of the Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium on the 26th and 27th of March 2026

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

In episode 235 our guest is Dr Ewa Lombard who is a senior researcher the University of Geneva converging the realms of affective sciences and collective intelligence, focusing on sustainable decision-making that withstands the uncertainties of the future.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

In episode 234 Peter is speaking to Richard Yonck who returns for his third podcast. This time Richard is here to discuss his first fiction book, Mindstock.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

In episode 233 Peter shares an economics and futures journey with Vinny Tafuro including from Adam Smith to Kate Raworth and from the Theory of Moral Sentiments to Design Economics. Vinny is a founder of the Institute for Economic Evolution and is a pioneering advocate for the twenty-first-century economy that is disrupting society’s rigid institutions and beliefs.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

In episode 232 Peter chats to Betty Sue Flowers, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus and a writer, editor, and international foresight consultant, with publications ranging from poetry therapy to sustainability.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

In episode 231 Peter meets Fernando Gutiérrez Olaizola who is a Uruguayan-born futurist based in the United States with a passion for space and science fiction, a focus on Latin America, and a drive to identify opportunities for emerging and developing nations to participate in space-based commerce and exploration.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

This year’s World Conference for the World Futures Studies Federation is coming up in Cape Town, South Africa on 29-31 October 2025 and Peter is discussing it with Doris Viljoen from the Stellenbosch Business School who are hosting it.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

A conversation with Sohail Inayatullah and Otto Scharmer remembering Johan Galtung, a Norwegian sociologist and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies exploring who he was and what he meant to them on their work.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

A return conversation with Andy Hines about his book, Imagining After Capitalism

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

Riel Miller returns for a conversation about where education systems need to go and he brings with him some friends who have conducted research on this very question, Stephen Murgatroyd and JC Couture - the authors of Education Futures for School Leadership

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward