8 Apr 2010, 1:15am
Academics Design Material/Digital Speculations
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Stuart Candy: ‘The Unthinkable and the Unimaginable’

Dating back to November 2009, this talk by Stuart Candy resonates at an incredibly similar frequency to where my head is right now. Highly recommended.

So, not only am I attempting an essay that links Stuart’s examples of experiential futuring, the wunderkammer, and public sociology, but I’m also in the early stages of some kind of design fiction slash media futures thing with two other MA students from Goldsmiths – and it’s probably the most fired up I’ve been since the end of Superstruct. For more on both project and essay, watch this space.

28 Jul 2010, 5:39pm
by Wendy Schultz


Why aren’t you getting a graduate degree in futures studies? (Speaking as the academic who wrote Stuart a letter of rec for the Hawaii futures program…) You’d have much more fun — and a lot more tools at your disposal for exploding into alternative potential futures…

28 Jul 2010, 6:05pm
by Justin


Hey Wendy, and thanks for the comment! It was something I wrestled with after finishing my BA, but I didn’t have the resources (mental, financial) to deal with one of the North American programmes, and the European equivalents seemed too firmly embedded in orthodox economics and management.

It’s certainly something I’d like to do a little further down the line, but I think I still need to clarify my interests within futures studies. Where did you start out?

 

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