Urban Futures Studio

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

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    What can we learn about the ways Caribbean communities adapt and bring in culturally vibrant ways of knowing and being with the ocean?’

    Background

    3 September 2024

    This May the Island and Oceans imaginaries workshop took place at Utrecht University. Researchers and others interested in the Caribbean came together to learn more about islands, islanders, their relationship to the ocean, and the unique challenges they face in the wake of a changing climate.
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    Call for Papers: Languages in the City

    News

    30 July 2024

    This two-day symposium, organized by the Open Cities Platform, explores the multitude of linguistic practices that serve to “open up” or “close down” participation in urban spaces.
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    New interactive video platform opens window into transformative research on just energy transitions.

    News

    17 July 2024

    On July 17th 2024, the Reconfiguring Energy for Social Equity (ReSET) project launches an innovative, experimental website to share research findings on just energy transitions more effectively and engagingly.
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    A speculative co-production of the future?

    Opinion

    12 June 2024

    For the opening keynote for the 16th Nordic Environmental Social Sciences Conference, Josie Chambers chose not to focus on the dominant ways people have been co-producing knowledge and action for sustainability. But rather, to take stock of the field and ask: what exactly are we co-producing? Are we producing knowledge that reinforces how the world is? Or are we imagining and prefiguring explorations of how the world can be otherwise?
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    Unleashing your raw humanity

    Opinion

    29 May 2024

    Last weekend, I cried at an academic conference. It’s not normal for me. I look back with part gratitude, part embarrassment. The experience has triggered me to transform how I carry myself in professional spaces. It started off pretty run-of-the-mill…

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  • 7 Nov

    November Research-in-Progress Seminar: AI, Digital Sovereignty and Media Infrastructures in India and Elsewhere

    7 November 2024 from 15:00 to 18:00

    This session by the Open Cities Platform features presentations on developing research by prof. dr. Annette Markham and dr. Maxigas Dunajcsik, with prof. dr. Payal Arora as a respondent.
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    Moods and other messy human challenges for datafication of future cities through “digital twins”— by Annette Markham

    2 December 2024 from 15:30 to 17:00

    Join us on October 7th for an engaging Friends of the Future seminar with Annette Markham, Chair Professor of Media Literacy and Public Engagement, creator and director of the Future Making Research Consortium.

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