Imagination/imaginal practice/futures
A juicy mix of people working on transformative imagination, futures, embodied imaginal practices, and more.
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@joostvervoort.bsky.social
@andrikos.bsky.social
💼 IxD Professor, Aalto University 🧪 UX, HCI, spirituality researcher 🎙️ ACM distinguished speaker 🛠️ Ex-SDU, -Nokia, -Philips 🎓 Alum TUe, UTEM 📣 Views my own
@eugenekudashev.bsky.social
a human being trying his best writer, internet artist, researcher ex founder of untitled map app serious / silly disillusioned tech enthusiast ??? moving here from twitter.com/eugenekudashev
@danhf.bsky.social
All-purpose movie guy and media studies scholar @ Utrecht University. Intransigent curmudgeon. Forthcoming: books on the political economy of the Fast & Furious franchise and a minute-by-minute analysis of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
@dfineffable.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Philosophy of Religion at University of Humanistic Studies
@molleindustria.org
Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. he/him
@petersjostedth.bsky.social
Philosopher of Mind and Metaphysics. PhD. Lecturer at the University of Exeter. Co-Director of Breaking Convention. Psychədəlix Research｜Process Philosophy Neo-Spinozism｜Exo Mind Theory www.philosopher.eu
@collapse-enjoyer.bsky.social
BSc Global Sustainability Science • MA Societal Transitions • games • art • imagination • emotions in transitions • personal sustainability • queer (they/them) Just a spiritual being having a very overwhelming human experience ✨
@beetjenicky.bsky.social
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3739210/Condo/ Itch: https://flubbedmachina.itch.io/condo Bandcamp: ulkmusic.bandcamp.com Niche enthusiast.
@sllwinters.bsky.social
🧠 Philosopher & Filosoof 👁 Epistemology, science, imagination 🔮 Outer space PhD researcher 🪩 Space, Place, Cosmos explorer 📚 I write, lecture and teach https://linktr.ee/sllwinters https://www.scientificimagination.org/projects-and-information/
@spiver.bsky.social
Writer, Vajrayana Buddhism, Enneagram, music. NY Times best selling author. The Buddhist Enneagram. The Four Noble Truths of Love. Wisdom of a Broken Heart. Somerville. Austin. Pro-sanity.
@ahendriks.bsky.social
Postdoc @UtrechtUni @UrbanFuturesStudio; imagination - futures - political theory - STS - sustainability transitions
@neuronaraka.bsky.social
hardcore/skramz/metal, horror, meditation. Grumpy GenXer. he/his Cognitive science stuff at: https://bsky.app/profile/neuroyogacara.bsky.social
@paulftremlett.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University & President of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR). Religions; places; literacies; alternative futures. Bad at chess, worse at table tennis.
@nicolleness.bsky.social
🔸️Media studies scholar 🔸️Fan studies, cosplay, games & tech 🔸️Passionate senior lecturer at HU Utrecht 🔸️Gamer, fan artist & Trekker 🖖 https://linktr.ee/nicollelamerichs
@samanthaculp.bsky.social
Writer & filmmaker in LA after many years in greater China / Currently writing a book about the global landscapes of futures thought / newsletter: borderstudies.substack.com
@illmare.bsky.social
UK-based game-maker, writer, university researcher and Green Party member. manchestergamecentre.org Tabletop Games, LARP, TTRPG, Horror, Gothic, Weird, Fantastika, Environmental Philosophy. Find stuff at frankandalex.itch.io and over at academia.edu.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
@honorharger.bsky.social
Director of ArtScience Museum in Singapore. Interstitial nomad and purveyor of particles and waves.
@idilgaziulusoy.bsky.social
#Sustainability Scientist & #Design Researcher. Associate Professor at Aalto University, Leader of NODUS #Research Group, Program Director of #Creative Sustainability master’s program. Above all, human and cat mama.
@christin.bsky.social
a human being who is also a neuroscience phd, buddhist chaplain, and co-host of the ok banger show with my friend cameron https://christinchong.com https://youtube.com/@okbangershow https://seemore.tv/christin
@leahprime.bsky.social
art bell scholar, wagnerfanatik, dreamer of the day ❤️🔥 complex systems, dharma, emergent phenomenology, infinite games ✨ DMs open
@danielbrottman.bsky.social
undying love, the only response to omni-dying life || music, buddhism, psychedelics, anarchy || DMs open, 1:1 meditation coaching free or by donation linktr.ee/danielbrottman
@badfutures.com
Founder and Futurist @ refuturing, Bourbon Enthusiast, Recovering Political Theorist, Former Musician, Kentuckian recently returned from exile in Austin. Revolution is not for the sane.
@jcamachor.bsky.social
Strategic Design & Futures | Program Director, MA Design Studies @ CENTRO | Research Affiliate @ IFTF | Co-Founder @ Diagonal https://medium.com/@j_camachor
@madelineashby.bsky.social
I write futures. GLASS HOUSES out 13 August 2024. Come fly with us. https://www.madelineashby.com/contact/
@linasrivastava.bsky.social
Founder, Center for Transformational Change. Strategist, producer, writer, traveler. https://linasrivastava.com https://transformationalchange.co She/her.
@aarathikrishnan.bsky.social
Executive Director at RAKSHA Intelligence Futures | Affiliate Cambridge Centre for Existential Risk | Ex UNDP, IFRC | Alumni Tech & Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School & Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University https://www.rak-sha.com
@changeist.bsky.social
Futurist, Managing Partner: changeist.com. Barcelona-based. Designing escape rooms for strategy: foom.live Author: “How to Future” (2020) howtofuture.com | “Future Cultures” (2023) futureculturesbook.com Reviews and previews: collisiondetector.com
@janeng.com
Operations Director at Gardens 🌳. I used to build game worlds and now I’m building a game studio. Prev Valve, Campo Santo. Was 3D env art on Half-Life: Alyx, Firewatch. Etc. Immigrant. She/her. 🐱 http://www.janeng.com 🌳 http://www.gardens.dev
@jesswestbrook.bsky.social
🦨~ postnormal social research > data-driven speculation > critical design > liberatory tech / Founder Queering Futures Research Studio + Identity Research Lab / prior Channel TWo [CH2] new media art&design / tenured prof / MFA+PHD / T1D cyborg / #Chicago
@ecocene.bsky.social
Author of Design, Ecology, Politics: Towards the Ecocene (Bloomsbury). PI on Transition Templates. Working in design & energy & ecological transitions. Canadian in the UK. Speak up against genocide and white supremacy while you can. https://ecolabsblog.com
@okanaga.bsky.social
🧙♀️Curious human Design Futurist & Researcher ✨ Experiential and Participatory Futures 👩🏻🏫 Design Futures @iberodiseno & @iberocentrus Co-founder @futuresspace https://linktr.ee/okanaga
@mariafere.bsky.social
Project Consultant EU Projects 🇧🇪 | (she/they) | Interdisciplinary sustainability scientist | Food systems, stakeholder engagement and co-creation | Art, nature, movement and finding wonder in the most mundane things | Diary of my Brussels life ✨️
@thedaybooks.bsky.social
Mom + poet in AL FT Instructor of English + Gender Studies Former k12/YA librarian + archivist PhD’ing in Comms/Book History Posts don’t reflect my institutions Read bell hooks 🔗 https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
@kschulz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Governance & Innovation @ University of Groningen | Climate Adaptation | Climate Governance | Sustainability & Digital Innovation | Energy Transition | Geopolitics I have a background in Geography and Political Science
@marijamdid.com
Materialist Videogames Industry Critic │ My book "Everything To Play For" out NOW worldwide with Verso Books. Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc│ Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis 🍸🏴 marijamdid.com
@vincehorn.space
Palestinian-American-Buddhist 🌐 vincehorn.space 📍Swannanoa, NC, USA
@laurap18.bsky.social
South African sustainability scientist. Prof in Sustainability Transformations and Futures at Global Change Institute, Wits University and researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre. IPBES expert, Earth Commissioner and general academic traveller
@roybendor.bsky.social
I study how design can open up alternative socio-ecological possibilities. I like music. And hockey. --- Associate Professor of Critical Design, and Director of Design for Interaction masters programme at Delft University of Technology, NL
@stephenduncombe.bsky.social
@hannamade.bsky.social
🌍 Making new worlds, in practice & in prose 📚 WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER coming March 27 @brazen.books 👩🏻💻 Supporting progressive orgs @wealign_ 🔗 www.hannathomasuose.com
@meghna.bsky.social
narrative design | 🌏ALL✊🏾WILL⚖️RISE🌍 | Thirsty Suitors / 80 Days / Sable | pleasures counter to capitalism-colonialism | technopolitics 🍞+🌹 liberation
@maartenhajer.bsky.social
Distinguished professor of Urban Futures & Futuring at Urban Futures Studio and Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University. Next: ‘Captured Futures - Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics’, written together with Jeroen Oomen, Oxford UP, April 2025.
@relicradiation.bsky.social
✧·ﾟ: *massage therapist & forest spirit *:·ﾟ✧ ♡ emotional health collab @JamesMayfield_ ♡ past: ML @meta, math/physics/CS @MIT ♡ via: dance, ritual,loving touch
@danlockton.com
Utrecht, Netherlands + Norwich, UK Director of the new Institute for Sustainable Worlds, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Design—imagination—climate—futures ⦿ Imaginaries Lab http://imaginari.es ⦿ New Metaphors http://newmetaphors.com ⦿ he/him
@jochamb.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @ Urban Futures Studio, Utrecht University | Artistic & political ways of transforming collective imagination | Musician | Blogger @ Utopian Pulses — experiments in social dreaming
@cassierobinson.bsky.social
www.cassierobinson.work 🌳Wealth Pre & Redistribution, Emerging Futures, Imagination Infrastructures, Conscious Closures, Practices for Transition. 🔮Erotic Ecology, Designing with the Other-than-human World, Oracular Bodies and Queer Capacities.
@riverkenna.com
All I want is a simple life of love & valor • & to be a renowned scholar-poet of mythodynamics • Who is wealthy • & jacked • Like a hot Jung • http://RiverKenna.com
@rosaclewis.bsky.social
Being Buddha Nature | rosalewis.co.uk | Founder of imaginaljourneying.com | Posts attributed to the Universe 🌌
@tyleralterman.bsky.social
Breathe in the evening sun. Breathe out the doing of taxes. Innocence after experience. Epistemic status: Oboe. tyleralterman.com
@vividvoid.bsky.social
I believe in everything. Nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing. Everything is sacred.
@joostvervoort.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination, Utrecht University. Connecting serious action with deep playfulness. Futures, politics, video games, art, activism. Working on ALL WILL RISE. Singer in Terzij de Horde. Insta: @joost.vervoort_artwork