In-Person Program
Tempe, Arizona
November 16-18, 2022
Rob and Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health
777 E. University Dr.
Tempe, AZ 85287-2404
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
08:00 | Registration and check-in desk opens
Rob and Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health
08:00-08:45 | Coffee/Tea + Light Breakfast
08:45-09:15 | Auditorium | Welcome
The Organizing Committee & David Guston
09:15-10:00 | Auditorium | Keynote | Expansive learning and possibility knowledge(s) for regenerative futures at the intersections of complex past(s)-present-future(s)
Heila Lotz-Sisitka
10:00-10:30 | Break
10:30-12:00 | Room 560 | Paper Session | Creative Anticipations
- Using the ECOtarot to understand complex emotions surrounding climate change: A pilot project | Adriene Jenik
- Anticipating Wellness: Collaborative Mythmaking and Engaged Rituals For The City | Trudy Watt and Coe Douglas
- Felting Futures / Futures Felt: A Living Arts-Based Inquiry by a Critical Futurist turned A/R/Temporalist | Roumiana Gotseva
10:30-12:00 | Room 192 | Curated Session | How do our beliefs about work affect the future of work?
J M Applegate, Manfred Laubichler, Sander Van Der Leuw and Xin Wei Sha
Canceled: 10:30-12:00 | Room 409 | Techniques Workshop | Strategies of Preparedness
Greta Hauer Canceled
10:30-12:00 | Room 409 | Paper Session | Imaginaries around the Globe
- How does Latin America envision the future? An study on “Latin American Futurism” | Martin Perez Comisso
- Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence: Industry Stakeholders’ Communicative Construction of AI in China, Germany and the US | Yishu Mao, Vanessa Richter and Christian Katzenbach
- The (Narrative) Reshaping of Periphery: Sicily’s 1 Euro House Projects as Spaces of Possibility | Dirk Hoyer and Alessandro Nani
10:30-12:00 | Auditorium | Curated Session: Responsible Futures
Ted Fuller, Fabrice Roubelat, Deon Cloete, Bruce Tonn, Lydia Garrido, René Rohrbeck and April Ward
10:30-12:00 | Room 360 | Curated Session | A program to cultivate anticipatory capabilities in West African health leadership teams for primary healthcare transformation
Jumana Qamruddin, Liza Mitgang and Tanja Hichert
12:00-13:00 | Second Floor Patio | Lunch
13:00-14:30 | Room 477 | Techniques Workshop | User Feedback: Telling Humorous Stories About Technology and Design
Tim Miller
13:00-14:30 | Room 360 | Curated Session | Deliberative Visioning and Backcasting as Tools for Inclusive, Just and Sustainable Future Pathways
- Deliberative Visioning and Backcasting as Tools for Inclusive, Just and Sustainable Future Pathways | Aleksi Neuvonen, Atte Ojanen and Nour Attalla
- Anticipating public perceptions in sustainability transitions | Marisa Manheim
- Logics of Eco-Social Regeneration | Morgan Shaw
13:00-14:30 | Room 409 | Techniques Workshop | Flights in Futures: Building Stories of Tomorrow
Lisa Kay Solomon and Jeffrey Rogers
13:00-14:30 | Auditorium | Curated Session | Flyover Fictions: Extreme Life
Ash Eliza Smith, Stephanie Sherman, Yasaman Sheri and Joshua Herr
13:00-14:30 | Room 460 | Paper Session | Applying Anticipation
- Healthcare Quality measurement and Politics of Anticipation | Pooja Chitre, Kathleen Pine and Melissa Mazmanian
- FIT for the future? Assessing the anticipatory capabilities of organizations | René Rohrbeck, Ignat Kulkov and Patrick van der Duin
- Envisioning Ethics – How to foster ethical reflections on futures to design responsible technologies | Nele Firscher and Wenzel Mehnert
14:30-15:00 | Break
15:00-16:30 | Room 460 | Paper Session | Time & Temporality
- Anticipation for future generations: Foresight and future generations in law-making | Amos Taylor, Mikkel Stein Knudsen, Toni Ahlqvist and Juha Kaskinen
- Process Tracing the Future: Decision-maker conceptualizations of urban just transition pathways to sustainable and resilient positive futures | Liliana Caughman
- Eigenforms of time – a conceptual design exercise | Piotr Michura
15:00-16:30 | Room 560 | Curated Session | Feminist anticipation across layers of smartness: Social implications and risks
Toby Shulruff, Elma Hajric and Farah Najar Arevalo
15:00-16:30 | Auditorium | Curated Session | Holoptic Foresight Dynamics: Collective Perception of Emerging Realities to Empower the Co-Creation of Imaginative, Novel and Transformative Futures
Frank Spencer, Ashley Bowers, Bárbara Ferrer Lanz and Michael Compton
15:00-16:30 | Room 192 | Techniques Workshop | A Future Design Workshop on Inequality
Moinul Islam and Tatsuyoshi Saijo
15:00-16:30 | Room 409 | Techniques Workshop | Activating Public Agency For the Future of Food: A Collaborative Role-Playing Game
Charlotte Biltekoff, Elizabeth Hoover, Christy Spackman, Db Bauer and Sara El Sayed
16:30-16:45 | Break
16:45-17:45 | Auditorium | Keynote Panel | Democratizing Futures, Hosted by the Center for Science and the Imagination
Panelists: Laura Cechanowicz, Ed Finn, Lauren Keeler, Punya Mishra
17:45-18:45 | Atrium | Opening Reception
Thursday, November 17, 2022
08:15-09:00 | Coffee/Tea + Light Breakfast
09:00-09:45 | Auditorium | Keynote | The masters tools will not dismantle the masters’ house
Aarathi Krishnan
09:45-10:15 | Break
10:15-11:45 | Room 577 | Paper Session | Decolonizing Anticipation
- Paglalayag Tungo sa Hiraya, Awakening the Unconscious Imagination and Igniting Ethical Aspirations: The Case of Hiraya Foresight | Shermon Cruz and Nicole Anne Kahn-Parreño
- Anticipating decolonial futures: the case of Brazil | Beatriz Carneiro and Fabio Scarano
- Exploring “Just Labor Transitions”: lessons from Chilean Experience | Nicolas Didier
10:15-11:45 | Room 192 | Techniques Workshop | Collective, Science-based Climate Futuring: Making ‘memories of the future’ by combining IPCC scenarios, foresight and storytelling
Manjana Milkoreit, Patrick Keys and Michele-Lee Moore
10:15-11:45 | Room 409 | Techniques Workshop | Strategic Artifacts: Tools and Activities for Anticipation
Tom Weis, Leo Blanken, Charlie Cannon, Elizabeth Kistin Keller and Kelesy Abel
10:15-11:45 | Room 560 | Curated Session | Performative Post-normality
Wendy Schultz, Maya Van Leemput and Christopher Jones
10:15-11:45 | Auditorium | Curated Session |Futures Thinking in K12 Education
Peter Bishop, Lisa Kay Solomon, and Ruth Wylie
Canceled: 10:15-11:45 | Room 477 | Techniques Workshop | Necessary Tomorrows
Brett Gaylor
12:00-13:00 | Second Floor Patio | Lunch
13:00-14:30 | Room 192 | Paper Session | Public Futures
- Our Biological Future: Public Deliberations & Social Empathy, a case study | Lauren Lambert, Dorit Barvley and David Tomblin
- Key dimensions of criticality in participatory futuring with publics | Laura Barendregt, Roy Bendor and Bregje van Eekelen
- The tacit promise: how participation is framed in strategic spatial governance to secure political legitimacy and Room for maneuver in the emerging future | Ferry van de Mosselaer
13:00-14:30 | Room 409 | Techniques Workshop | Going meta, anticipating anticipation: a workshop
Noorah Alhasan, Joseph Corneli, Charles Danoff, Abby Tabor and Leo Vivier
13:00-14:30 | Room 560 | Curated Session | Towards Ethical Anticipations of Educational Futures
Noah Sobe and Keri Facer
13:00-14:30 | Auditorium | Curated Session | Making Critical Futures
Laura Forlano, Jessica Meharry, Hendriana Werdhaningsih, Irem Tekogul and Catherine Wieczorek
14:30-15:00 | Break
15:00-15:45 | Auditorium | Keynote |Do we want a cyberpunk future?
Deji Bryce Olukotun
16:00-17:30 | Room 192 | Paper Session | Mediated Temporalities
- Exhibition Design of the Sami Pavilion through 3d-Scanning and Multiplayer Virtual Reality | Kai Reaver
- Digitizing in the face of catastrophe – speeding up to slow down | Roos Hopman
- Polylogue for the Co-creation of Images of the Futures | Maya Van Leemput
16:00-17:30 | Room 560 | Paper Session | Critical Technology Assessment
- Failuring the Future: Critiquing Today for a Better Tomorrow | Jonathan Coopersmith
- Model-based anticipation in technology assessment: the hermeneutic approach for opening up a critical perspective | Armin Grunwald
- The Stupidest Thinking Machine In the Entire World: The Power of Narrative in Bad AI Futures | Robin Zebrowski
16:00-17:30 | Auditorium | New Ideas Session
Note: Room change to Auditorium
- From Futures Thinking to Roots Thinking as a way to decolonize futures | Fernanda Ebert
- Future Studies as a Lens for Reckoning with the Past: Tensions and Possibilities in Renaming Debates | Jeanne Powers and Ruth Wylie
- “Eko? Isn’t that what you people call Lagos?”: Africanfuturism and Alternative Urban Futures in Nigeria | Luke Boyle
- New Design Mythologies Manifesto | Ben Schoenekase and Ruchita Arvind Mandhre
- Redesigning Corporate Culture – Remote work as a long-term transition of workplaces towards more sustainable corporate culture | Talvikki Kollmann
- Canceled:
The Science Fiction Feedback Loop and the Evolution of the Metaverse Imaginary | Rizwan Virk
16:00-17:30 | WCPH 477 | Curated Session | Futures Literacy and Cognition
Note: Room change to WCPH 477
Lydia Garrido, Alfonso Ávila-Robinson, Piotr Michura
16:00-17:30 | Room 190 | Techniques Workshop | Thinking with water: material co-production in anticipatory governance
Marisa Manheim and Christy Spackman
16:00-17:30 | Room 577 | Paper Session | Narrative Futures
- The canoe: using fiction to embody the archetypes of the Anthropocene | Christine Roussat and Valentina Carbone
- Afrofuturism – Decolonizing Science-fiction for Alternative Modes of Anticipation | Isaac Joslin
- Subjunctivity, A New Form of Knowledge: On the Epistemology of Possibility | David Staley
17:30-18:00 | Break + Walk to Dinner
18:00-21:00 | Old Main | 400 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281 | Banquet Dinner
Friday, November 18, 2022
08:15-09:00 | Coffee/Tea + Light Breakfast
09:00-09:45 | Auditorium | Keynote | Crip Futurity, Cyborg Disability and Designing the World Otherwise
Laura Forlano
09:45-10:00 | Break
10:00-11:30 | Room 192 | Paper Session | Design Futures
- Anticipatory justice in design speculation | G. Mauricio Mejía
- The Critical Catalyst: Demystifying Critical Design Futures | Ammer Harb and Manuela Celi
- The Future as Service | Eva Knutz and Thomas Markussen
10:00-11:30 | Room 360 | Paper Session | Creativity, Innovation & New Media
- Beyond the Studio: how Cross-Modal Third-Space Thinking might reshape education | Samantha Perkins and Paola Sanguinetti
- “Like something’s about to happen”: speculative anticipation from unknown sounds | Richard Sandford
- Creativity: The Flawed Forge of Tomorrows | Christopher Jones
10:00-11:30 | Room 409 | Techniques Workshop | Prototyping Social Forms 1: Enacting and Sensing Process
Muindi F. Muindi, Xin Wei Sha, Nadia Chaney, Teoma Naccarato, John MacCallum, Garrett Laroy Johnson and Dulmini Perera
10:00-11:30 | Room 560 | Techniques Workshop | Learning Anticipatory Thinking
Ray Quay and Claire Lauer
10:00-11:30 | Room 477 | Curated Session | Stacking the Deck for Sustainability: Youth “Lessons” to Turn it Around
Ann Nielsen, Esther Pretti, Marina Basu, Dilraba Anayatova, Setrag Hovsepian, Jieuy Jiang and Iveta Silova
10:00-11:30 | Auditorium | Curated Session | How can governance capacities support transformative pathways toward nature-based futures?
Amanda Kuhn, Nancy Grimm, David Iwaniec, Niki Frantzeskaki, Robert Lloyd, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Liliana Caughman and Tischa Muñoz-Erickson
11:30-12:30 | Second Floor Patio | Lunch
12:30-14:00 | Room 192 | Paper Session | Climate Imaginaries
- Effects and Effectiveness of Climate Imaginaries | Manjana Milkoreit
- On Regenerative Anticipation | Fabio Scarano, Raul Corrêa-Smith, Leonardo Menezes, Ana Paula Teixeira, Davi Bonela and Alexandre Fernandes
- Climate Models, Climate Futures, and the Ethics of Probability | Pamela Carralero
12:30-14:00 | Room 360 | Paper Session | Policy-Oriented Anticipations
- Anticipatory practices as loci for modulating the governance of innovation and socio-technical futures | Kornelia Konrad
- Building anticipatory capacity in a multi-level, multi-policy environment: Disruptions and scenarios to underpin EU R&I policies | Attila Havas, K. Matthias Weber, Susanne Giesecke and Dana Wasserbacher
- Investing in Imagination Infrastructure for UK Communities | Cassie Robinson
12:30-14:00 | Room 190 | Techniques Workshop | Analyzing Future Social Value from Scenarios: An Invitation and Experiment
Michael Bernstein, Lauren Withycombe Keeler, Luke Boyle and John Harlow
12:30-14:00 | Room 409 | Techniques Workshop | Prototyping Social Forms 2: Enacting and Sensing Body
Dulmini Perera, Muindi F Muindi, Xin Wei Sha, Teoma Naccarato and John MacCallum
12:30-14:00 | Auditorium | Curated Session | Anticipation in the scale of ‘Deep Time’
Keri Facer, Bruce Tonn, Ted Fuller and Richard Sandford
12:30-14:00 | Room 560 | Paper Session | Theories of Anticipation
- Anticipatory Social Systems in Post-Normal Times: Moving Beyond Power, Politics, Polemics and the Past | Jayne Fleener
- Future temporalities – advancing time concepts in contemporary anticipation practice | Ludwig Weh, Marguerite Coetzee and Lisa Kinne
- Anticipatory Governance. Delving into the quality of ‘anticipatory’ as a practical onto-epistemic capacity for ‘using the future’ | Lydia Garrido
14:00-14:30 | Break
14:30-16:00 | Room 460 | Paper Session | Participatory Futures
- Futures Workshops: from fragile fictions to sticky stories | Hillary Carey and Jessica Meharry
- Barrio Innovation: Visions from Latinx youth in Phoenix | Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Vanya Bisht, Regional Carrillo, Monique Franco, Mandy Kuhn and Jorge Morales
- Eating Temporalities: Food as an artifact of past and future environments, and a medium for multi-temporalities | Allie Es Wist
14:30-16:00 | Room 360 | Paper Session | Critical Anticipatory Capacities
- Futures as Chaos Attractors: the need for wild, feral, outlier archetypes | Wendy Schultz
- From anticipatory capacity to anticipation intelligence (AQ) | Leila Varley and Shirin Elahi
- Models of the Future: The Capitalist Quest for Grand Narratives | Adrienne Sörbom and Christina Garsten
14:30-16:00 | Room 192 | Paper Session | Energizing Public Futures
- Stakeholder inclusion and anticipation on techno-economic data for long-term energy planning | Per Dannemand Andersen and Antti Silvast
- Anticipating the Long-Future: Consent-Based Siting for Nuclear Waste Management | Jennifer Richter, Michael Bernstein and Mahmud Farooque
- Exploring the Unanticipated Consequences of UK Net Zero Transport Policy with Participatory Systems Mapping: the need for participatory whole systems approaches to transport decarbonisation, air quality and health | Alexandra Penn, Suzanne Bartington, Sarah Moller, Ian Hamilton, James Levine, Kirstie Hatcher and Nigel Gilbert
14:30-16:00 | Auditorium | Curated Session | Foresight’s Special Issue on Reconceptualising Foresight and its Impact: Learning about the Capacity to Decolonise
Riel Miller, Geci Karuri-Sebina and Kwamou Eva Feukeu
14:30-16:00 | Room 409 | Curated Session |Prototyping Social Forms: Un Altro Mondo È Possibile
Xin Wei Sha, Muindi F Muindi, Teoma Naccarato, John MacCallum, Garrett Laroy Johnson, Dulmini Perera, Zeynep Aksöz-Balzar, Mark Balzar, Galo Patricio Moncayo Asan, Satinder Gill and Vangelis Lympouridis
14:30-16:00 | Room 190 | Open Dialogue | College of Global Futures Graduate Student Synthesis
Leah Friedman
16:15-17:00 | Auditorium | Closing Reflections
The Organizing Committee