In 2025 Maarten Hajer and Jeroen Oomen published Captured Futures - Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics. In this talk show, moderated by Vanessa Timmer,…

Join the Urban Futures Studio on November 3rd for an engaging Friends of the Future seminar with Hazem Abuorf, Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Palestine and Research Fellow ...

There is much to say about the implications of using AI to depict so-called better worlds, with already numerous critiques of bias, labour exploitation, and energy unsustainability. Or even worse, the...

In deze Mixed Classroom gaan we in op de vraag hoe overheid en samenleving hun onderlinge relatie kunnen herijken. Daarbij stellen we ‘futuring’ centraal.

Het klimaatdebat is voorspelbaar geworden. Volgens politicologen Maarten Hajer en Jeroen Oomen spelen politici, wetenschappers, activisten en journalisten krampachtig steeds hetzelfde toneelstuk, keer...

The #NoKings protests this weekend were a great example of Dramaturgies of Change in action. By adopting the upside down national flag, previously used by Dutch farmers resisting nitrogen regulations...

Join the Urban Futures Studio on May 26th for an engaging Friends of the Future seminar with Riley Tsang, a creative facilitator from Taiwan and the US Midwest working as the Global Engagement Special...

The concept of utopia has a dark colonial past that lives on through overgrown dreams that leave little space for other possible futures. The Utopia*Art*Politics Collection explores the alternative po...

Awareness is growing that current climate policy approaches for citizen and policymaker interaction are inadequate. ‘Public participation’ is often found to be hampered by narrow technical and func...