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Seeding the Future at the New Children’s Museum

By Elizabeth Merritt

I’m a huge fan of speculative fiction—stories with the power to immerse us in the daily reality of possible futures deeply and viscerally. We can fall in love with fiction in a way we rarely love academic research or formal foresight. As a …
The Earnest Work of Dreaming: Chicanafuturism in Visual Art

By Jadira Gurulé

Visions of the future created by and centering the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC) are essential to our collective potential to transform the world as we know it. For decades, BIPOC artists working in …
An Afrofuturist School Program Empowers Children to Envision the Future

By Nina Woodruff-Walker

Futurism is a powerful tool to share with kids—equipping them to think about the world they want to live in when they grow up, challenging them to make it better. Today on the blog, Executive Director Nina Woodruff-Walker tells us how the …
The Community Futures Lab: Oral Histories, Oral Futures, and Quantum Time

By Elizabeth Merritt

This is Nicole with a bit of field reporting about futurist work in practice. Last week, I traveled to Philadelphia, PA to visit the Community Futures Lab, a project of the Black Quantum Futurism collective. Co-founder Rasheedah Phillips …

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