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week 39 / 2025: staying with various troubles

week 39 / 2025: staying with various troubles

Utopias and dystopias are equally open to interpretation, as are all narratives of futurity. That's why, for me, the name of the game is to portray the messiness of hopes and fears alongside each other...

week 27 / 2025: on models and literacies

week 27 / 2025: on models and literacies

"All models are wrong, but some models are useful"—so the saying goes. But how are they wrong, and how are they useful? And what does that mean for thinking about futures?

unknown pleasures: an interview with Cameron Tonkinwise (part 2)

unknown pleasures: an interview with Cameron Tonkinwise (part 2)

In the second part of my interview with Cameron Tonkinwise, we discuss Transition Design, prefigurative politics, dramaturgy, narratology, imagination, and... urban cycling as filtered through the philosophy of Georges Bataille?

of system and story: how narrative-based futuring expands the planner’s toolkit

of system and story: how narrative-based futuring expands the planner’s toolkit

What use is story in the context of serious, grown-up planning? It's the best way of finding out the flaws in your existing system model—let me tell you why.