We design generative situations for public good, for clients & for kicks. Run by Stuart Candy @futuryst at @TecdeMonterrey & Kiki Benzon @the_whomsoever at @USC
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📢 #FuturesBazaar has been named this year’s Most Significant Futures Work by the Assoc’n of Professional Futurists @profuturists in the #InclusiveForesight category!
🙌 researchgate.net/publication…
We’re delighted to announce our latest project — a #PublicImagination toolkit in #OpenAccess, written by @futuryst & @FilippoCuttica, co-published by us & @BBC!
🌟 situationlab.org/the-futures… #FuturesBazaar
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I love getting people to think of futures via The Thing from the Future.
#FutureThing
The webinar recording about our award-winning public imagination toolkit #FuturesBazaar, with authors @FilippoCuttica & @futuryst, is now online – thanks @profuturists ! 👀🙌✨
youtube.com/watch?v=A6q2kFG6… #ExperientialFutures #Foresight #ParticipatoryDesign #Making
If you’re in Denver for #PS2023, come to our #FutureThing session imagining into the details of a #PostProhibition future!
It’s tomorrow/Friday 12-1pm, with both @sitlab directors @the_whomsoever (@USCCinema) & @futuryst (@parsonsdesign) and special guest @sage_izzy of @MAPS! ✨
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🥁 New event coming up! 🥁
The Futures Bazaar webinar by Stuart Candy @futuryst & @FilippoCuttica
Save the date!
🎯 Thursday April 27th
⏰ 5pm CET
👉 Don't miss this opportunity and register here: lnkd.in/dr9Rb_gu
Gif credits: BBC Futures Bazaar event
Big news — Situation Lab will now be cross-sited between New York at @ParsonsDesign & Los Angeles at @USCCinema. Stay tuned for more updates! 🎉
Tweeps, I’m happy to share that I’m transitioning to a new full time role, as Associate Professor of #SocialForesight at Parsons @TheNewSchool. See you in New York!
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The Futures Bazaar!
Thinking concretely about times and worlds to come is harder and rarer than it should be
Expand horizons, explore new ideas, transform everyday objects into things from the #future
@futuryst @FilippoCuttica
buff.ly/3YIBciN
#innovation #foresight
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What an awesome way to end the year :) Our #FuturesBazaar toolkit has been recognised as one of the Most Significant Futures Work by @profuturists. Thanks to @futuryst, @bbcuxd, @sitlab and everyone else who contributed to its creation ✨
Our #FuturesBazaar toolkit has won Most Significant Futures Work of the year in the #InclusiveForesight category! 🏆🎉✨
Thanks @profuturists #IFawards cc @FilippoCuttica @sitlab @BBC
👀 Some of what the judges said:
– “Really excited by this project”
– “One of the most well developed toolkits I’ve come across”
– “Will inspire many organizations”
– “Opens up huge potential for creativity for the field”
Thanks to APF, and congrats to @BBC & other honorees! 🙏
While the BBC page for The Futures Bazaar is temporarily down, you can still download the complete #FuturesBazaar toolkit for free here! researchgate.net/publication…
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"The Futures Bazaar" was recently published by the BBC and the Situation Lab. Co-created by @futuryst, Futures Bazaar is a turnkey framework that invites people to take junk items and collaboratively transform them into artifacts from the future. buff.ly/3GJWbez
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"a Futures Bazaar is a design jam or creative gathering, where people bring in “junk” items from home, and transform them into unique “artefacts from the future”, to provoke, amuse, and inspire one another" by @FilippoCuttica and @futuryst bbc.co.uk/gel/features/futur…
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Yesss. Delighted to share my latest project! The Futures Bazaar is a public imagination toolkit in open access created with @futuryst and published by @bbc and @sitlab. bbc.co.uk/gel/features/futur…
#ExperientialFutures #ParticipatoryDesign #FuturesBazaarr
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The Futures Bazaar is an event designed for creative teams, communities and classes everywhere to explore alternative futures collaboratively and playfully together.
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We just started the #Futures #Design course by playing The Thing From The Future*. I’m looking forward to see what #FutureThing each student brings next week. #anticipation ✨
*We used Miro and paper (ask me how)
✨🤯✨“The imagination game that blows minds — as intended” #FutureThing 🙏😂💫
“For tonight's class on gaming as a futures method” 😍
2) Discuss prediction markets.
3) Play The Thing From The Future
situationlab.org/project/the…
HT @futuryst @sitlab
In his latest newsletter, futurist & seasoned facilitator Andrew Curry @nextwavefutures walks through our brand new #FuturesBazaar toolkit — and muses on the kind of process design tweaks / customisation that we warmly invite folks to try.
Check it out! justtwothings.substack.com/p…