FuturePod

A conversation with Doris Viljoen about the upcoming WFSF World Conference in South Africa 29 to 31 October 2025

A conversation with Sohail Inayatullah and Otto Scharmer remembering Johan Galtung, a Norwegian sociologist and the principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies exploring who he was and what he meant to them on their work.

A return conversation with Andy Hines about his book, Imagining After Capitalism.

Riel Miller returns for a conversation about where education systems need to go and he brings with him some friends who have conducted research on this very question, Stephen Murgatroyd and JC Couture - the authors of Evidence Education Futures for School Leadership Interviewed by : Peter Hayward

A conversation with Fabienne Goux-Baudiment and Tamas Gaspar about their Great Transition Game and the experiences they have had with developing a serious game that is engaging to a variety of audiences and cultures.

A conversation with Oliver Markley and Ruben Nelson remembering Willis Harman, author of Global Mind Change and An Incomplete guide to the Future exploring who he was and what he meant to them.

 Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston is a neuroscientist and a Research Fellow at Monash University in Australia and is the author of The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death.

Donna Dupont who is a former policy advisor and emergency manager who now applies foresight to strengthen decision-making and she returns to the Pod for a catchup chat.

The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Maya van Leemput.

Dr Derek Woodgate returns to the Pod after 3 plus years to talk about his new book, The Augmented Learner

A conversation with Samista Jugwanth who is an engineer and technical director at Zutari in South Africa

A conversation with Erik Overland about his paper, Sustainability and Futures, Moving Beyond the Natural and Artificial

The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Rowena Morrow

A conversation with Patricia Lustig and Gill Ringland about their new book, The Possibility Wheel

A conversation with Shermon Cruz and Katindi Sivi about a new futures community being established, the Global South Futures Community.

The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Bhavana Nissima

The next instalment in our Letters to the Future Series. Our guest is Sonja Blignaut.

Our first episode in a different style of podcast that we are calling ‘ Letters to the Future’ , with our inaugural guest, Marcus Bussey.

Peter’s guest today is Trish Lavery who is an academic and policy expert working with the School of Cybernetics, Australian National University. Her work places human behaviour at the centre of strategy, futures, and strategic foresight.

Riel Miller returns for his sixth FuturePod appearance and another deep dive into matters Futures and Foresight related.

Peter chats with Elissa Farrow and Jeanne Hoffman about the Oceania Futures and Foresight Symposium 3-4 April 2025 they are organising in Meanjin (Brisbane).

Paulo Carvalho is an Educator, Innovator and Entrepreneur who has thought deeply about the disruptions and opportunities provided by Generative AI and who has just published a report on how he believes Generative AI will disrupt Foresight.

Doris Viljoen is the Director of the Institute of Futures Research at the Stellenbosch Business School in South Africa and she explains why she has the coolest job in the world and about our responsibility to do good work that grows our field

Alexis is a Design and Foresight Strategist in Toronto and Peter chats to her about the psychology of meeting our future self and how we can build a better relationship with that self plus also make the future more vivid by colouring the future in with thoughts and experiences. Like the experience of engaging with Nature.

In this episode, Amanda speaks with Rose Genele about how we can navigate the ethics of using Artificial Intelligence. Rose is a transformative leader and AI ethics advocate committed to creating ethical, resilient companies and technologies, and the host of the What Are We Going To Do With All This Future podcast. WAWGTDWATF podcast: https://rosegenele.com/wawgtdwatf-podcast/ Contact Rose: https:...