Fellows
UFS Fellows are established scholars and experts who have their main appointment at another institution or organisation, and work together with the Urban Futures Studio to push intellectual boundaries.
Roy Bendor
Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology's Department of Industrial design.
Michiel van Iersel
Program Lead of the Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation at ETH Zürich. He is the co-founder of cultural collective Non-fiction and research platform Failed Architecture and was a 18-2019 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Suzanne Potjer
Suzanne Potjer is a policy advisor and an expert in the field of experimentation and learning in the public domain. She wrote the Urban Futures Studio book 'Experimental Governance. From the Possible, to the Doable, to the New Mainstream' (2019) and recently published, together with Maarten Hajer, the follow-up essay 'Experimental Governance. Booklet for policymakers on the move' (2021). She works as a consultant at TwynstraGudde, from where she helps governments, organisations and networks to work in new, more experimental ways.
John Robinson
John Robinson is a Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and the School of the Environment, at the University of Toronto, where is he also Presidential Advisor on the Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability.
Mark Swilling
Distinguished Professor and Programme Coordinator: Sustainable Development in the School of Public Leadership, University of Stellenbosch and Academic Director of the Sustainability Institute.
Vanessa Timmer
Executive Director of One Earth, an environmental 'think and do tank' creating and imagining sustainable ways of living in cities and around the world. Dr. Timmer is also a Senior Research Fellow at Utrecht University with Pathways to Sustainability and the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development.
