Wandering Futurists

A brief update on the activities of our merry band of futurists:

Jim Dator is currently teaching at the International Space University, this year in Beijing.

Liza Lockard will also be going to Beijing to present her work on space architecture to the ISU summer program.

We are very happy to be joined by Alma Krivdic, a Bosnian ISU student, who is interning at the Center and conducting research on women and space.

Aaron Rosa is in Tokyo, presenting a paper at the Ubiquitous Media Conference. Other speakers of note include N. Katherine Hayles, Rem Koolhaas, and Mark Hansen.

Stuart Candy has completed his first year at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee, Switzerland, and is now in his second stint as a research affiliate at the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco. He is a frequent contributor to the Blog of the Long Now as well as his always excellent personal futures blog, The Sceptical Futuryst.

Shanah Trevenna has joined our office, and is in the midst of working several miracles to turn our building, Saunders Hall, into a model of sustainability. A task beset on all sides by the inequities of bureaucratic nonsense and the tyranny of institutional inertia. But if anyone can make it happen, Shanah can.

and yours truly recently returned from the Culture as Innovation conference held in Turku, Finland and sponsored by the Finland Futures Academy. I presented a paper entitled Dream Merchants: Neuroscience, Neuropower, and IP. It was an interesting conference, I met and re-connected with some of my favorite scholars in the futures field, and enjoyed a nice bit of European summer.

Finally, some more good news on the home front. The HRCFS, in conjuntion with The ARTS at Mark's Garage, will be putting together a show of 'artifacts from the future' for late October. You can search this blog or the Sceptical Futuryst for reference to past work and conceptual basis of this method.

All for now, over and out...