New Research into Participatory Futuring and Why It Matters I’m excited to share a new paper I co-authored with Jessica Meharry for the Participatory Design Conference 2026: “What Happens to Shared Visions? Surveying the Literature for Strategies to Preserve and Disseminate Participatory Futures.” [Download PDF] The paper explores a question that connects design + futures practices: What happens after people collectively imagine a better future together? In many participatory futures...

Experiential Futures (XF) are marvelous ways to provoke people to consider a possible future ( Candy , 2010; Candy & Dunagan 2016)....

Imagining better futures for health and care At our May meetup we admired the work of Jane McGonigal and her book, Imaginable: How to See...