The Futures Workshop

Feb 15 2025 14 ep. 34 mins 7
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A series of conversations with the world's leading futurists about how to use the tools they've created.

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Episode Thirteen: Andrew Curry on Futures Landscapes

Feb 15 2025 50 mins  
Kia ora and welcome to episode thirteen of The Futures Workshop!Most of the tools we’ve looked at so far rely on scenarios - imagined future scenes which we then use to work out the implications for us and our organisations.But today’s guest Andrew Curry says scenarios aren’t always the best approach. It can be cognitively tricky to get groups to fully embrace a speculative f

Episode Twelve: Riel Miller at the Dubai Future Forum

Jan 19 2025 47 mins  
Welcome back to the Dubai Future Forum podcast lounge, from which I’m delighted to share another special episode of The Futures Workshop.For this episode I was joined by former Head of Foresight and Futures Literacy at UNESCO Riel Miller, who shared his reflections on the Forum before taking a deep dive into “futures literacy” - a concept with which he has become synonymous.

Episode Eleven: Paul Saffo at the Dubai Future Forum

Dec 11 2024 34 mins  
This week, a special episode of The Futures Workshop: my conversation with Professor Paul Saffo, recorded in front of a live studio audience at the Dubai Future Forum in November 2024.Also special is today’s topic. After ten episodes exploring different tools and how to use them, Paul challenges us to think about the proper place of tools in futures work. He says we should use th

Episode Ten: The Futures Triangle workshop

Oct 20 2024 12 mins  
This week we’re following up our conversation with Ivana Milojevic with an imagined workshop. We show you how you might use the Futures Triangle tool with a group - guiding them to identify the pull, push and weight forces that affect the way we work towards a preferred future. We then look at how those forces might interact with each other - particularly where the tensions or ob

Episode Nine: Ivana Milojevic on the Futures Triangle

Oct 05 2024 50 mins  
Today we’re in conversation with Ivana Milojevic, another of the world’s leading voices in the area of futures. Ivana has worked extensively around the globe, and shares some of her most memorable experiences in a wide ranging discussion, with a focus on the Futures Triangle tool.In this interview Ivana explains how by understanding three invisible forces - the weight of the pa

Episode Eight: Design Futures Workshop

Sep 15 2024 20 mins  
Welcome to our latest episode, in which we take the tool introduced by Jake Dunagan in Episode Seven, and try it out in a workshop setting.Jake’s specialty is “experiential” (or “design”) futures and central to this is the Create-a-Scene tool, which uses various facilitation techniques to bring a future scenario to life. In this episode we imagine a dystopic “collapse�

Episode Seven: Jake Dunagan on Design Futures

Sep 01 2024 51 mins  
In this episode I talk to one of the pioneers of design futures (or if you prefer, “experiential” futures) about how to emotionally engage people in futures thinking. By creating immersive scenarios, Jake says we can help people connect with what they’re imagining.We talk about some of his most memorable scenarios, how to bridge the “cognitive gap” that stops people emoti

Episode Six: Backcasting Workshop

Aug 25 2024 14 mins  
Welcome to episode six, another workshop episode we’ve created to assist facilitators and practitioners.In this episode we imagine a workshop where the goal is to eliminate food deserts in Auckland by 2050. Using backcasting, we imagine our goal then work our way backwards, looking at the series of steps and milestones it would have taken to get there.We hope you enjoy it! If you

Episode Five: Sarah Mecartney on Backcasting

Aug 15 2024 48 mins  
I’m excited to share our next conversation in The Futures Workshop series: my interview with Sarah Mecartney (Regional Director of Melanesia for the Pacific Community). Sarah has chosen to talk about Backcasting, one of my favourite futures tools. She makes it sound much less intricate than this diagram! But as a visual aid it may be helpful for you to refer to during or after ou

Episode Four: CLA workshop

Aug 08 2024 22 mins  
Following our episode three conversation with Professor Sohail Inayatullah on his Causal Layered Analysis (CLA) tool, in this episode we imagine using it in a workshop setting.Like all our even-numbered episodes, this one is aimed at practitioners and facilitators who want some practical examples of tool-use to assist with their own skill-building. If you’re a general listener yo