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Alenda Y. Chang is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her book, Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games, offers environmentally informed frameworks for understanding and designing digital games. She is also a founding co-editor of the UC Press open-access journal, Media+Environment.
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Alys Hargreaves is a design researcher and writer based in London. Between the wetland and the city, her work engages with regenerative material practices in our shifting landscapes. She did a placement with Future Observatory as part of her Spatial Practices MArch at Central Saint Martins.
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Andrea Conde Pereira is picture editor of the Future Observatory Journal.
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Arturo Escobar is an activist-researcher from Cali, Colombia, working on territorial struggles against extractivism, ecosocial transitions. and ontological design. He was professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is currently affiliated with the PhD Program in Environmental Sciences (Universidad del Valle, Cali). His books include Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (2018), and Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human, with Michal Osterweil and Kriti Sharma (2024).
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BC architects & studies & materials is a multifaceted practice based in Brussels who work as architects, as well as an education laboratory and material production cooperative. BC has an explicitly bioregional practice, often experimenting with locally sourced materials and knowledge to make their projects, which include LOT 8, the new Atelier LUMA building in Arles, completed with Assemble in 2023.
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Bushra Mohamed is a British-Kenyan architect, writer and academic. She is the Director of MSOMA Architects, an architecture and research practice based in London and Nairobi.
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Calvin Po is a strategic designer and researcher at Dark Matter Labs. He co-leads its Radicle Civics portfolio, demonstrating new forms of social organisation that are ecocentric, decentralised and oriented around common stewardship. He also teaches at the Architectural Association, and is an architecture critic for The Spectator.
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Cher Potter is curatorial director of Future Observatory and deputy editor-in-chief of the Future Observatory Journal. Trained as a design historian, with a professional background in trend forecasting, her work reflects on past futures and anticipates emerging ones.
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Dan Hill is Director of Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne. A designer and urbanist, Dan's previous leadership roles include the Swedish government’s innovation agency Vinnova in Stockholm, Arup in London and Sydney. Fabrica in Treviso, the Finnish Innovation Fund SITRA in Helsinki, and the UK government’s Future Cities Catapult and the BBC in London. Dan is also a Visiting Professor of Practice at UCL's Institute for Innovation and Public Practice and a founder member of the Council on Urban Initiatives.
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Dr. Donella H. Meadows, a Pew Scholar in Conservation and Environment and a MacArthur Fellow, was one of the most influential environmental thinkers of the twentieth century. After receiving a Ph.D in biophysics from Harvard, she joined a team at MIT applying the relatively new tools of system dynamics to global problems. She became principal author of The Limits to Growth (1972), which sold more than 9 million copies in 26 languages. She went on to author or co-author eight other books.
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Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby are partners in the design studio Dunne & Raby and university professors at Parsons / There New School in New York where they co-direct the Designed Realities Lab.
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Eliot Haworth is a writer, editor and researcher based in London. His work spans the fields of design, culture and ecology. Alongside ongoing research on the intersections of nonhuman life and the built environment, he works as an architecture editor at MACK books, editorial director of Fantastic Man magazine and associate lecturer on the M-Arch at Central Saint Martins.
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Ella Hubbard is a PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on the concept of bioregioning and how it is being applied in the Tayside bioregion, Scotland, and the Casco Bay bioregion, Maine, USA. She is particularly interested in bioregioning as postcapitalist praxis.
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George Kafka is commissioning editor of the Future Observatory Journal.
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James Bridle is a writer, artist and technologist. Their artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and on the internet. Their writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. They are the author of 'New Dark Age' (2018) and 'Ways of Being' (2022), and they wrote and presented "New Ways of Seeing" for BBC Radio 4 in 2019.
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James Peplow Powell is an architect, more-than-human designer and co-founder of the research collective Feral Partnerships. He was Design Researcher in Residence at the Design Museum 2022–23, International Artist in Residence at Spreepark Berlin in 2024 and is an Associate Lecturer in Architecture at Sheffield Hallam University. His work explores the systemic and design implications of more-than-human interdependence.
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Jennifer Cunningham is a design researcher and writer with a background in material culture. Based between Vienna and Scotland she works as the Lead Researcher of the Forecast for the Future Observatory. Her work is full of objects, materials and distractions.
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Justin McGuirk is the editor of Future Observatory Journal and the director of Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition. He is also the former chief curator of the Design Museum. A writer and curator, he has produced numerous high-profile exhibitions and publishing projects. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, e-flux and numerous art and design journals. He is the author or editor of several books, including Radical Cities (Verso, 2014) and Ai Weiwei: Making Sense (2023).
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Justinien Tribillon is a writer, editor and curator with a focus on space, migration, urbanism and forms of creative resistance through labour. In 2024 he publishes The Zone: An Alternative History of Paris with Verso, and Visible Upon Breakdown with Spector Books.
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Leilah Hirson-Comley is the coordinator of Future Observatory.
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Lila Boschet is assistant editor of the Future Observatory Journal.
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Dr Sharon Prendeville is Senior Lecturer in Design Innovation and Deputy Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) at Loughborough University London. Her expertise is at the intersection of design, ecology and democratic innovation. She sits on the Future Observatory research steering group.
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Shayari de Silva trained as an architect and works on curatorial and editorial projects. She has co-edited The Yale Architecture Journal, Perspecta 51: Medium (MIT Press, 2018) and edited Geoffrey Bawa: Drawing from the Archives (Lars Müller, 2023). She is currently the Chief Curator at the Geoffrey Bawa Trust in Colombo.
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Studio Ossidiana is an award-winning practice in architecture, design and research led by Alessandra Covini and Giovanni Bellotti. Founded in 2015, the practice works on materials, buildings, installations, and objects.
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Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, where he taught from 1980 until his retirement in 2016. His main areas of philosophical interest are political philosophy, ethics and philosophy of mind.
