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.

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    • Spreading the climate movement beyond the vanguard left: the power of tradition

      Background
      The term 'tradition' is widely used to refer to indigenous wisdom and fossil-free farming. Such thinking is important in challenging modernist techno-optimism. But it also makes tradition seem like something that belongs to the past and political margins.

    • Magical technology and the colonialism vanish trick

      Background
      Many have long marvelled at humans’ capacity for technological innovation. Especially now, amid cascading environmental crises, technology seems to take on a magical quality. We acknowledge the many great things technological innovation has achieved. But holding faith with technological innovation alone is not only high risk: it ignores the exploitation of people and planet on which it depends.

    • Reflecting on the Sustainable Futures summer school

      News
      Looking back on the summer school that took place from 3 - 7 July 2023 at the UU Botanical Gardens, organised by Urban Futures Studio.

    • Apply for the Mixed Classroom 2023-2024

      News
      UU master’s students can now apply for ‘Techniques of Futuring — a mixed classroom with policymakers’, a 3-month course organised by the Urban Futures Studio. Application deadline: 24 September 2023

    • Liberation rituals: collective liminality for transformative change

      Background
      When it comes to environmental politics, everywhere we look, there’s a feeling of being stuck. UN summits take one step forwards and two steps back. Scientists are gluing their papers to buildings and their hands to the road because governments are failing to act. Most of us look on dejectedly, wondering what we’re supposed to do, or why we should do it if no one else does.
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