In this episode, we talk with Hilary and Alexandra about the challenges racial justice advocates face in envisioning long-term futures, from their article "Lots of Extra Time and Privilege to Just Dream of Utopia: Barriers to LongTerm Visioning in Racial Justice Work". We discuss how urgent short-term needs, resource constraints, and the constant battle against white supremacy often overshadow the capacity to dream about racially just futures. We explore possibilities for futurists and advocates to collaborate in elevating visions of racial justice.

Interviewees: 

Hillary Carey
Alexandra To

Interviewers: 
José Ramos 
Abril Chimal
Loes Damhof

Further reading on the subject includes: 

Social Design Dreaming: Designing Future Visions of Racial Justice (Hillary’s doctoral dissertation)

Flourishing in the Everyday: Moving Beyond Damage-Centered Design in HCI for BIPOC Communities (Alexandra’s paper)

Collective Healing to Support Design Futures: Building Community and Exploring Methods

Inspiring reads on antiracism and future visions:
Robin D. G. Kelley, 2002. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Boston: Beacon Press.

Alex Zamalin, 2019. Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism. New
York: Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/zama18740.

Jose Pedro Zúquete, 2011. “Another World Is Possible? Utopia Revisited.” New Global Studies 5 (2):
1130–1130. https://doi.org/10.2202/1940-0004.1130.



Barriers to LongTerm Visioning in Racial Justice Work

In this episode, Loes, Abril, and Jose delve into the violence against women in Mexico City, from their report: “Using Anticipatory Experimentation to Explore and Create Futures of Safety for Women in Mexico”. Drawing from an Anticipatory Experimentation workshop held at Centro University on the eve of historic protests, they explore contemporary challenges, historical shifts, and deep mythological roots contributing to this problem in Mexican society. The discussion centers around reimagining pathways forward by leveraging emerging narratives and recovering powerful mythological metaphors, like that of the Chamana (Shamanic woman), to reframe and address violence against women through new ideas and new experiments.


Interviewees: 
Abril Chimal
José Ramos 


Interviewers: 
Loes Damhof

Further reading: 

Using Anticipatory Experimentation to Explore and Create Futures of Safety for Women in Mexico
https://jfsdigital.org/articles-and-essays/2024-2/vol-28-no-3-march-2024/18095-2/ 


Using Anticipatory Experimentation to Explore and Create Futures of Safety for Women in Mexico

In this episode, we talk with Dave Adams about the challenges sport and recreation leaders in New Zealand face in adopting futures thinking, from their article "The Future of Sport and Recreation in New Zealand". We discuss how the generally risk-averse and conservative nature of the sector, the issue of ‘presentism,’ and the lack of international examples of futures thinking in sport and recreation often hinder the ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment. We explore possibilities for leaders and futurists to collaborate in integrating futures thinking to better navigate the evolving landscape of sport and recreation.

Interviewees:

Dave Adams

Interviewers:

Abril Chimal
Loes Damhof

Music: 

"One Cosmos", Royalty Free Music [No Copyright] by Wee Free Music 

"Tronicles"  Royalty Free Music [No Copyright] by Wee Free Music 

"Future Renaissance" Royalty Free Music [No Copyright] by Wee Free Music 

Production:

Podcast conceived and produced by José Ramos and Abril Chimal  
Podcast edited by José Ramos   

*Many thanks to the APFN awards and review committee.


The Future of Sport and Recreation in New Zealand

Women cyclists are an underrepresented group and initiatives taken to promote the uptake of cycling among women have been limited. This exploratory study employs the Futures Triangle as a framework in structuring a series of in-depth interviews conducted with fourteen women cyclists to capture women who cycle’s images of the future. Three themes emerge from the analysis: why women don’t cycle more, motivators for women encouraging them to cycle more, and the desirability of connecting with other women who do cycle. The findings of the study, further deconstructed using Causal Layered Analysis, result in a deeper understanding of the systemic causes of the issues facing women cyclists, and the worldviews held and narratives owned by society and women themselves which perpetuate those issues. 

Music: 

"One Cosmos", Royalty Free Music [No Copyright] by Wee Free Music 

"Tronicles"  Royalty Free Music [No Copyright] by Wee Free Music 

"Future Renaissance" Royalty Free Music [No Copyright] by Wee Free Music 

Production: 

Podcast conceived and produced by José Ramos and Abril Chimal  
Podcast edited by José Ramos   

*Many thanks to the APFN awards and review committee. 

Barriers to LongTerm Visioning in Racial Justice Work

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