Situation Lab

We design generative situations for public good, for clients & for kicks. Run by Stuart Candy @futuryst at @TecdeMonterrey & Kiki Benzon @the_whomsoever at @USC

[Situation Lab @sitlab]

📢 #FuturesBazaar has been named this year’s Most Significant Futures Work by the Assoc’n of Professional Futurists @profuturists in the #InclusiveForesight category!

🙌 https://t.co/ZSN8ZejuVT

[Situation Lab @sitlab]

We’re delighted to announce our latest project — a #PublicImagination toolkit in #OpenAccess, written by @futuryst & @FilippoCuttica, co-published by us & @BBC!
🌟 https://t.co/kp5MPBuNz7 #FuturesBazaar

[Bryan Alexander @BryanAlexander]

I love getting people to think of futures via The Thing from the Future.
#FutureThing

[Situation Lab @sitlab]

The webinar recording about our award-winning public imagination toolkit #FuturesBazaar, with authors @FilippoCuttica & @futuryst, is now online – thanks @profuturists ! 👀🙌✨

https://t.co/0EXGQTMRen #ExperientialFutures #Foresight #ParticipatoryDesign #Making

[Situation Lab @sitlab]

If you’re in Denver for #PS2023, come to our #FutureThing session imagining into the details of a #PostProhibition future!

It’s tomorrow/Friday 12-1pm, with both @sitlab directors @the_whomsoever (@USCCinema) & @futuryst (@parsonsdesign) and special guest @sage_izzy of @MAPS! ✨

[TeachTheFuture.org @teachfutures]

🥁 New event coming up! 🥁
The Futures Bazaar webinar by Stuart Candy @futuryst & @FilippoCuttica

Save the date!
🎯 Thursday April 27th
⏰ 5pm CET

👉 Don't miss this opportunity and register here: https://t.co/OHI2IWTw3t

Gif credits: BBC Futures Bazaar event

[Situation Lab @sitlab]

Big news — Situation Lab will now be cross-sited between New York at @ParsonsDesign & Los Angeles at @USCCinema. Stay tuned for more updates! 🎉

[Stuart Candy @futuryst]

Tweeps, I’m happy to share that I’m transitioning to a new full time role, as Associate Professor of #SocialForesight at Parsons @TheNewSchool. See you in New York!

[Frank Kumli @frankkumli]

The Futures Bazaar!

Thinking concretely about times and worlds to come is harder and rarer than it should be

Expand horizons, explore new ideas, transform everyday objects into things from the #future

@futuryst @FilippoCuttica

https://t.co/GjimfTOPGM

#innovation #foresight

[Filippo Cuttica @FilippoCuttica]

What an awesome way to end the year :) Our #FuturesBazaar toolkit has been recognised as one of the Most Significant Futures Work by @profuturists. Thanks to @futuryst, @bbcuxd, @sitlab and everyone else who contributed to its creation ✨

[Situation Lab @sitlab]

The #IFawards are posted here 👉 https://t.co/KlS69yRSh6 and soon at @profuturists 🎉

[Situation Lab @sitlab]

📢 #FuturesBazaar has been named this year’s Most Significant Futures Work by the Assoc’n of Professional Futurists @profuturists in the #InclusiveForesight category!

🙌 https://t.co/ZSN8ZejuVT

[Situation Lab @sitlab]

We’re delighted to announce our latest project — a #PublicImagination toolkit in #OpenAccess, written by @futuryst & @FilippoCuttica, co-published by us & @BBC!
🌟 https://t.co/kp5MPBuNz7 #FuturesBazaar

[Situation Lab @sitlab]

👀 Some of what the judges said:

– “Really excited by this project”
– “One of the most well developed toolkits I’ve come across”
– “Will inspire many organizations”
– “Opens up huge potential for creativity for the field”

Thanks to APF, and congrats to @BBC & other honorees! 🙏

[Situation Lab @sitlab]

While the BBC page for The Futures Bazaar is temporarily down, you can still download the complete #FuturesBazaar toolkit for free here! https://t.co/ZSN8ZeB6kt

[CMU School of Design @cmudesign]

"The Futures Bazaar" was recently published by the BBC and the Situation Lab. Co-created by @futuryst, Futures Bazaar is a turnkey framework that invites people to take junk items and collaboratively transform them into artifacts from the future. https://t.co/XsykhIGmdc

[Emile HOOGE @ehooge]

"a Futures Bazaar is a design jam or creative gathering, where people bring in “junk” items from home, and transform them into unique “artefacts from the future”, to provoke, amuse, and inspire one another" by ⁦@FilippoCuttica⁩ and ⁦@futuryst⁩ https://t.co/EaLxVjoPuh

[Filippo Cuttica @FilippoCuttica]

Yesss. Delighted to share my latest project! The Futures Bazaar is a public imagination toolkit in open access created with @futuryst and published by @bbc and @sitlab. https://t.co/CpRv76UVW2

#ExperientialFutures #ParticipatoryDesign #FuturesBazaarr

[Filippo Cuttica @FilippoCuttica]

The Futures Bazaar is an event designed for creative teams, communities and classes everywhere to explore alternative futures collaboratively and playfully together.

[mushon.bsky.social (Zer Aviv) @mushon]

We just started the #Futures #Design course by playing The Thing From The Future*. I’m looking forward to see what #FutureThing each student brings next week. #anticipation ✨
*We used Miro and paper (ask me how)

[Situation Lab @sitlab]

✨🤯✨“The imagination game that blows minds — as intended” #FutureThing 🙏😂💫

[Bryan Alexander @BryanAlexander]

@sitlab It blew their minds, as intended. Or opened them up to creative futuring more than my scenario exercises did.

[Situation Lab @sitlab]

“For tonight's class on gaming as a futures method” 😍

[Bryan Alexander @BryanAlexander]

2) Discuss prediction markets.
3) Play The Thing From The Future
https://t.co/2QpvFdxK2y

HT @futuryst @sitlab

[Situation Lab @sitlab]

In his latest newsletter, futurist & seasoned facilitator Andrew Curry @nextwavefutures walks through our brand new #FuturesBazaar toolkit — and muses on the kind of process design tweaks / customisation that we warmly invite folks to try.

Check it out! https://t.co/DEmR8MJvV5