The Urban Futures Studio explores sustainable and meaningfully democratic futures, and ways to get there. We investigate what we call ‘futuring’ - the social creation of the (imagined) futures that direct collective action. As a transdisciplinary institute, we collaborate with policymakers, activists, artists, and students to enable alternative futures.

Visit the Urban Futures Studio at Princetonlaan 8a, Utrecht  (room 1.02)

    • How to imagine a better futures in difficult times: a guide for meaningful visioning

      News
      An Utrecht University team has collaborated with the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) to create a practical guide for researchers working on future visions that aim to inspire real societal change.

    • Futures of Palestine: Imagining Justice

      News
      Personal experiences and academic insights alternated during the 'Palestine Futures' meeting on April 7, 2024.

    • The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection

      Opinion
      The concept of utopia has a dark colonial past that lives on through overgrown dreams that leave little space for other possible futures. The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection explores the alternative potential of utopia—not as an elite blueprint of predefined ends—but as a radically collective method for justice.

    • The perils of foretelling the future

      Opinion
      Lacking visions of better possible futures, many have been drawn towards imagining rosy stolen pasts. Yet, we are not witnessing an isolated disease of the imagination in the form of populist nostalgia. There is a broader dynamic at play—namely, the projection of certainty into the future in ways that diminish our collective ability to remake the present. This wider disease of the imagination extends beyond populist nostalgia and includes several strains with divergent political roots.

    • Exhibition on geoengineering inspired by Utrecht University research

      News
      The exhibition Design for the Planet, partially inspired by research by Jeroen Oomen offers a groundbreaking exploration of the design and history behind geoengineering.
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