Future Self

Film directors often have a high level of control over their films, in translating the vision that they have onto the screen. But when the stories you're putting onscreen are from a culture that's not your own, a new approach is required.In this final episode of Future Self for 2021, filmmaker and ANU student Emma Hudson speaks to director and producer Rolf de Heer, whose storied c

There are those who predict the future, and those who create it. Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell went from being an anthropologist at Stanford University to applying her anthropology expertise at Intel, helping to design products of the future. Her job hadn't really existed before - she had to design that too. Through her work, Professor Bell sought to ensure that the experi

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is engaged in the work of saving lives, protecting rights, and building a better future for refugees, internally displaced communities and stateless people. And as a UN agency with a global mandate and universal name recognition, it's a very competitive place to land a job with.In her conversation with François Kernin, ANU student Jess Honan learns ab

Pierre Shasha has always wanted to work at Google. Perhaps unsurprisingly - it's a dream workplace for many people.So what's it really like working there? We connected Pierre with Nisheeth Nimmagadda, an employee at Google who (under pre-COVID conditions) is based in their Seattle, Washington office. Nisheeth explains his non-linear path to Google, offers advice about the skills an

Museums are storehouses of collective memory, places that enshrine particular narratives and preserve objects that help us to tell important stories – about individuals, a locality, a nation.In this episode of Future Self, ANU student Eleanor Foster speaks to arguably the most significant figure in the museum world globally: Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III, head of the Smithsonian

This year, Sachini Poogoda has been fulfilling her dream of writing a novel over the course of her Honours in English Literature. Now that the draft is complete, the next steps await: polishing the draft, and getting it published.We put Sachini in touch with Jessie Tu, whose debut novel A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing was published by Allen & Unwin earlier this year to great acc

ANU music student Rachel Warren's dream is to work as a topliner in K-Pop. In this episode, she speaks to Grammy-nominated US music producer Mike Daley, who has produced and mixed the records of musicians including EXO and NCT, Lady Gaga and Chris Brown. Mike tells Rachel how he got into the K-Pop industry, and the skills one should hone if they want to be a producer or topliner in

Whether you're starting out in your career, or figuring out what to do with your life, it can help so much to have a mentor. Someone who's been there and worked through it, someone who supports you and tells you you can do it.With this episode, ANU student Lauren Northcote and demographer Dr Liz Allen come to Future Self with an existing friendship and mutual admiration. Each are i

In this episode of Future Self, Jonathon Zalakos interviews accomplished jewellery designer Ezra Satok-Wolman of Atelier Hg.They have a deeply intelligent conversation that will make you rethink what jewellery is, can be, and the thought and craft that go into making an exquisite piece.Jonathon is in the final year of a Bachelor of Design/Bachelor of Business Administration degree

Third year student Maximilian Lechner-Scott is the host of the very first episode of Future Self!Max is studying a Bachelor of International Relations and a Bachelor of Arts at the Australian National University. Their major is Arabic and focus area is the Middle East.Max's ambitions lie in academia, specialising in urban planning in the Arab world. They interviewed Kristin V. Monr