In order to be effective, foresight practitioners need to adopt a multidimensional approach to foresight. This means being able to distinguish and use what Stuart Candy posits as the three dimensions of foresight – difference (which is basic to thinking about change over time), diversity (essential to all scenario generation processes and to the field’s core philosophical shift from “future” singular to “futures” plural), and depth (often neglected in the field, but now addressed by the family of approaches known as Experiential Futures, or XF). XF practices are about providing immersive, interactive, embodied and emotionally engaging glimpses of alternative futures through design, media and the arts: whatever it takes. With this powerful set of methods, we are better equipped than ever to engage foresight in all its dimensions, for strategic and dialogic decision making, public policy, collective imagination, and cultural transformation.
Stuart Candy: Whatever It Takes
- Date
- 14 March 2024
- Time
- 16:00-17:00 CET
- Location
- OECD Headquarters, Paris, France
About
Speaker
Stuart Candy
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Critical Futures in the School of Architecture, Art and Design at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City, and Fellow of The Long Now Foundation, San Francisco
Stuart Candy, Ph.D. is Director of Situation Lab, Advisor at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Fellow of The Long Now Foundation, and Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Architecture, Art and Design at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City. An artist, educator, and professional futurist, Stuart collaborates with leading institutions in governance, culture, science, advocacy, arts and media to foster their, and our, collective capacity to think ahead. The results have featured on the Discovery Channel, in books like Speculative Everything and Discursive Design, in popular venues like The Economist and Wired, and in festivals, museums, city streets, organisations and universities around the world. His contributions include The Sceptical Futuryst blog, award-winning projects such as The Futures Bazaar and Imagination Is a Commons, and the edited collection Design and Futures.