FuturePod

EP 144: Sabine Winters - Scientific Imagination

Sabine Winters is a philosopher working at the intersection of science and art with an interest in the 'how and why' behind theory and process.

She is the initiator of Future Based, an interdisciplinary philosophy platform exploring themes of expansion of consciousness, scientific imagination, scale, time, and things that are.

Interviewed by: Amanda Reeves

EP 143 : Leah Zaidi - Building Brave New Worlds

Leah Zaidi is an award-winning strategic foresight practitioner and worldbuilding expert, with over 15 years of corporate experience. She has worked with prestigious organizations such as the United Nations, Stanford University, and various Fortune 100 companies.

Her articles and research papers have over 75K+ reads, and her reports have been downloaded by 1000+ organizations. She has an MDes in Strategic Foresight and Innovation from OCAD University.

Interviewed by: Reanna Browne

EP 142 : Claire Marshall - Getting Capitalism Out of Our Brains

Claire Marshall has a love for stories, technology and social good. An award-winning creative her work melds story-telling, futures thinking and experience design to hack the way our brains think about the future, so that we can take action on climate change.

Claire is an experiential futurist. Her award-winning Museum of Futures project was created with the City of Sydney. The Future of Work exhibition in 2019 explored our different work futures under climate change. Pandemic Pivots exhibition of 2020 explored how Sydney might pivot for the better due to the pandemic. Her other work includes an audio tour of the future for the World Wildlife Fund and the Human Robot Friendship Ball for the Vivid festival.

Interviewed by: Amanda Reeves

EP 141: FuturePod Conversations: Uzbekistan Futures - John Sweeney and Pete Malvicini

In this latest podcast John Sweeney and Pete Malvicini are in conversation discussing a new UNSECO Chair in Anticipatory Governance and Sustainable Policy Making in Uzbekistan

Guests: John Sweeney and Pete Malvicini
Host: Peter Hayward

EP 140 : Yvette Salvatico - Pulling the Future towards us

Yvette is the Managing Director of Kedge Futures. She comes from a finance and leadership background and discusses how foresight work must be used to promote more equitable futures for those who lack power and influence in the present. Leaders need both a foresight mindset and the courage to deploy it.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

EP 139 : Changing Minds - Epaminondas Christophilopoulos

Epaminondas is the UNESCO Chair on Futures Research Hellas and the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Special Secretariat for Foresight at the Presidency of the Greek government

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

EP 138 - Using Scenarios - Thomas Chermack

Thomas is Founder and Principal of Chermack Scenarios which offers customised scenario planning and consulting. He develops systems to provoke new insights and connect decision maker mental models to complex and uncertain environments

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

EP 137 - Transdisciplinary Synthesis - Richard Eckersley

Richard Eckersley is an independent researcher and writer on progress, sustainability, culture, health and wellbeing. He ranges across many fields of knowledge to develop new, common frameworks of understanding. In essence, he explores the question: Is life getting better or worse?

EP 136 - Futures Weaver - Cat Tully

Cat Tully is the founder of SOIF, the School of International Futures, celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2022. Before setting up SOIF, Cat worked as a strategy and policy adviser to the UK government under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.  She is motivated by a focus on social justice and the importance of multi-stakeholder approaches to the challenges of the 21st-century world.

Interviewed by: Peter Hayward

EP 135 - Working in the Space of Anticipation - Cheryl Doig

Dr Cheryl Doig combines a background in education with wide experience in leadership, governance, and futures thinking. She is the Director of Think Beyond, Chair of Ako Ōtautahi Learning City Christchurch, and founder of the Ōtautahi Futures Collective.

Interviewed by: Amanda Reeves