How to address the rapid evaporation of democratic norms, and engage with sustainability concerns against that backdrop? What can policy do in such a time? Last call for students at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (and beyond) to sign up for our #MixedClassroom course: www.uu.nl/en/research/...

Ambitious @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social master students can now apply for our #MixedClassroom course. Learn from and with societal actors, exploring how #TechniquesOfFuturing and #Dramaturgy shape our collective capacity to imagine and act towards sustainable futures. www.uu.nl/en/research/...

Luister of lees 'Waarom het klimaatdebat aanvoelt als en film die we al honderd keer hebben gezien', waarin @maartenhajer.bsky.social en Jeroen Oomen in gesprek gaan met journalist @jelmermommers.bsky.social over #CapturedFutures @decorrespondent.nl

Young teens wearing baggy jeans. Listening to Nirvana. On a Walkman. Have you fallen through a time portal? No. It’s just the latest trend. Could this 90s revival culture help people embrace a fossil-free future? Read @godsandsods.bsky.social's new #ClimateConfessions blog www.uu.nl/en/opinion/s...

Our reaction to #NoKings: Dramaturgically speaking, the resistance is finally finding it’s rhythm www.linkedin.com/posts/timoth...

Captured Futures: Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics is officially out! Huge congratulations to @maartenhajer.bsky.social & Jeroen Oomen. Their new book is a must-read for anyone who is interested in how we can move from captured to captivating #futures. www.uu.nl/en/research/...

Join us this afternoon for a #FriendsOfTheFuture seminar with Riley Tsang 'Embodying transitions: what transitions studies can learn from transgender experiences' www.uu.nl/en/events/em... #Futures #Futuring #Transitions #TransExperiences

Read 'Shaping the future: A conceptual review of sociotechnical imaginaries', a new paper by @ahendriks.bsky.social Kamilla Karhunmaa & Pierre Delvenne. They examine the evolution of the concept and engagement with it across disciplines. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Futures #Imaginaries

Watch the guest lecture "Captured Futures: Producing the inevitability of solar geoengineering" Jeroen Oomen gave on April 22nd at the The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9fo... @harvardsalata.bsky.social #CapturedFutures

On 3 June, @maartenhajer.bsky.social and Jeroen Oomen present their new book “Captured Futures - Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics” at Pakhuis de Zwijger, together with experts Marianne Minnesma, Bart van den Hurk, and Ralien Bekkers. dezwijger.nl/programma/ca... #CapturedFutures

Read 'Dramaturgies of change: Staging political transformation', a new paper by @godsandsods.bsky.social, Jeroen Oomen, @jessehoffman.bsky.social & @maartenhajer.bsky.social

Captured Futures - Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics by @maartenhajer.bsky.social & Jeroen Oomen offers a compelling critique of how environmental politics ‘as we know it’ cannot deliver. Now available online for subscribers: academic.oup.com/book/59970?l... @oxfordunipress.bsky.social

Join us on April 28th for a #FriendsOfTheFuture seminar with Femke Bijlsma, partner and content developer at the international design studio Kossmandejong. Are you interested in exploring how to create compelling stories that matter? learn more and register here: www.uu.nl/en/events/st...

| Blog | Read @jochamb.bsky.social new blog post where she introduces the Utopia*Art*Politics Collection; a multi-media collection of provocations and insights by 33 artist-researcher-practitioners who participated in the Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions last year: www.uu.nl/en/opinion/t...

Today, our colleague dr. Deana Jovanović joined us for the #FriendsOfTheFuture seminar about her new book ‘Staging the Promises — Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town’. Sign up for our events mailing list to receive an invite for the next seminar: mailings.uu.nl/hp/NxTyEInP4...

Meet our new colleague: @lcdanny.bsky.social In his PhD research, he will examine how structures of mediatization impact the collective politics of sustainability transitions and why it seems so difficult to imagine desirable futures within our contemporary media landscape. www.uu.nl/staff/DSteur

We are in much need of inspiration in these treacherous uncertain times… Thrilled to share the 𝗨𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮*𝗔𝗿𝘁*𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, an edited multi-media collection which brings together diverse ideas on how artistic practices can help reimagine and remake our world. Download: www.uu.nl/en/research/...

Join us on April 8th for an engaging Friends of the Future seminar with dr. Deana Jovanović. Guest panellists prof. Kei Otsuki and dr. @jessehoffman.bsky.social join Deana to discuss her new book 'Staging the Promises - Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town'. www.uu.nl/en/events/st...

🚨Today's the last day to apply for our #FuturingForSustainability summer school. From 7 — 11 July, we are organising a course featuring exciting talks & interactive sessions with Jeroen Oomen, @godsandsods.bsky.social @maartenhajer.bsky.social and others: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/soci...

This July, political scientist @floravelino.bsky.social is joining us for the #FuturingForSustainability summer school. She is a professor of Organisations & Sustainability at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. 🚨1 day left to apply: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/soci...

We're happy to welcome back Shivant Jhagroe for our upcoming #FuturingForSustainability summer school. He is assistant prof. at the Institute of Public Administration @unileiden.bsky.social & author of 'Voorbij Duurzaamheid' (Beyond Sustainability). Apply now: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/soci...

From 7-11 July, we are organising our #Futuring for #Sustainability summer school featuring exciting talks and interactive sessions. One of our guest lecturers is public administration expert professor Paul 't Hart. Learn more (5 days left to apply): utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/soci...

This April, the #PathwaysToSustainability program of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social is organizing a series of discussions and a participatory exhibition exploring the issues surrounding the new gold rush for critical minerals. Learn more: www.uu.nl/en/events/cr...

This January, participants of our 9th #MixedClassroom course presented their reflections on our radical times in the form of the exhibition 'Beyond the End - Four Futures for 2054' that presented four visions of what the Netherlands might be like in the future. Learn more: www.uu.nl/en/research/...

#Vacature Wij zoeken een nieuwe postdoc onderzoeker voor ons #AcademyOfHope project. In deze positie onderzoek je de wijze waarop het faciliteren van gesprekken, binnen & buiten het onderwijs, kan bijdragen aan een meer hoopvolle omgang met de toekomst. Reageer voor 11-04: www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

Guest researcher Sören Altstaedt, of the Max Planck institute for the study of societies, just gave an intriguing #FriendsOfTheFuture seminar about the limits to growth debates in 1970s. Sign up for our events mailing list to receive an invite for the next seminar: mailings.uu.nl/hp/NxTyEInP4...

Meet our new colleague: @ahendriks.bsky.social who recently joined our team to work on our latest project: Nederland Verbeeld(t). In this project, we aim to use #futuring to create excitement about the Netherlands' future in the face of complex spatial challenges. www.uu.nl/staff/AHendr...

🌞Tomorrow, we're sending a fresh urban futures studio newsletter featuring our upcoming #summerschool , the #FriendsOfTheFuture seminar, and we're introducing our new researchers @ahendriks.bsky.social and @lcdanny.bsky.social ✍️Subscribe here: mailings.uu.nl/hp/rt6Oc-q1P...

Sign up for our upcoming #FriendsOfTheFuture seminar 'Economists, Ecologists, and the Clash of Futures in the 1970s Limits to Growth Debates' with Sören Altstaedt: www.uu.nl/en/events/ec... 🗓️Tuesday 18 March (13:00-14:30) 📍Urban Futures Studio, Utrecht University #seminar #education #research

✉️ Next week, we are sending out our quarterly newsletter. If you're curious about what the Urban Futures Studio is working on, this is the perfect moment to sign up ✍️: mailings.uu.nl/hp/rt6Oc-q1P...

Don't forget to sign up for our #FriendsOfTheFuture seminar tomorrow! Kei Otsuki shares insights from ‘Following Frontiers of the Forest City’, a project following the contested plan to relocate Indonesia’s capital from Jakarta to the forest highlands of eastern Kalimantan. www.uu.nl/en/events/ex...

Apply now for the ‘Futuring for Sustainability summer school’. From 7 to 11 July 2025, we set out to find new connections between the scientific need for a sustainable #future and the political search for #belonging in uncertain times. www.uu.nl/en/research/... ⏰ Registration deadline: 1 April 2025

Join us this afternoon (starting 14:00) at Moira, Utrecht, for the closing exhibtion of our #MixedClassroom course: Beyond the end — Four futures for 2054. www.uu.nl/en/events/be...

| Blog | "We have been so busy recovering from the recent pandemic of the body, that we have been blind to the growing pandemic of the #imagination" Read @jochamb.bsky.social 's new blog post: The perils of foretelling the #future www.uu.nl/en/opinion/t...

In an increasingly uncertain world, what is science's rightful place? We're hiring a new #PhD to investigate how #science, often perceived as a neutral force, is being challenged to address environmental concerns, technological risks & societal inequalities. Apply now: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

| BLOG | Environmentalists must embrace the drama of belonging. Read the latest #ClimateConfessions blog post by @godsandsods.bsky.social - This piece is the first in a new series sharing insights from Ecology and Belonging research project: www.uu.nl/en/opinion/e...

Join us for the public lecture 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥: 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬? Together we will map the emotional landscape of climate conversations. 📅 Jan 29, 5-6:30pm + drinks 📍 Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden More details here! rijksmuseumboerhaave.nl/te-zien-te-d...

Did you miss our December newsletter? Read it here: mailings.uu.nl/u/archive/lj... — Learn more about our new research project 'Ecology and Belonging', read the 3-part blog series by the #ReSET team, and sign up to receive the next newsletter directly in your inbox!

Read ‘Producing the Inevitability of Solar Radiation Modification [SRM] in Climate Politics' by Jeroen Oomen. In this new essay he argues that there is an increasingly tight fit between the promise of #SRM technologies and the global regime of #climate politics: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In 2018, UFS co-hosted #PlacesOfHope, an exhibition & manifestation about a sustainable future for the (North of the) Netherlands. Versteeg, @maartenhajer.bsky.social &Hoffman wrote a paper about the meaning and potential of utopian experiments like Places of Hope www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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