Urban Futures Studio

@futuresstudiouu.bsky.social

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We explore sustainable and meaningfully democratic futures, and ways to get there. We investigate what we call #futuring - the social creation of the (imagined) futures that direct collective action. @UtrechtUniversity

Photo of Mixed Classroom students tilting their head during a presentation with text layover 'The Mixed Classroom 2025-2026 — Making Policy for a Radical Age' Utrecht University logo, Urban Futures Studio
People visiting the 'Four Futures for 2054' exhibition, the closing event of the Mixed Classroom '24-'25
Nirvana band photo
Bookcover 'Captured Futures — Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politcs' by Maarten A. Hajer & Jeroen Oomen
Shaping the future: a conceptual review of sociotechnical imaginaries. Read the Urban Futures Studio. Utrecht University logo.
Bookcover 'Captured Futures' by Maarten Hajer and Jeroen Oomen on green background
Stimulation or manipulation? The power of immersive storytelling.
Deana Jovanović presenting in the Urban Futures Studio
Danny Steur giving a presentation. On his left a slide with an illustration and text "Insensible Depths: Relating to the Non-Relational in Drexciyan Afrofuturism"
Friends of the Future seminar 'Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town — with Deana Jovanovic'.
Jeroen Oomen lecturing in a green house. On his left a slide about 'sociotechnical imaginaries'
Professor Flor Avelino lecturing during 'Futuring for Sustainability summer school 2024' in a green house.
dr. Shivant Jhagroe lecturing during 'Futuring for Sustainability' summer school, at the Utrecht Botanical Gardens.
Paul 't Hart wearing black frames and a dark green button-up shirt
Critical materials and critical stories — A participatory exhibition and conversation series with cases from West-Papua, the DRC, ande more.
Woman signing a form on a dining table dressed with a small Dutch flag
Onderzoekers werken in groepen op de buitenplaats van De Lik, Utrecht, tijdens het kick-off event van het Academy of Hope project
Abe Hendriks wearing glasses, a white t-shirt and blue shirt.
open yellow envelope with the urban futures studio newsletter inside
Banner with left: a photo of researcher Sören Altstaedt, and on the right: 'Economists, Ecologists, and the Clash of Futures in the 1970s Limits to Growth Debates - Sören Altstaedt. Tuesday 18 March, 13:00-14:30 at the Urban Futures Studio'
wall of multi-coloured mail boxes
Banner with on the left side a photo of professor Kei Otsuki and on the right 'Extractive Urbanization - The new capital city of Indonesia and what it tells us about our urban futures
Particpants of the UFS summer school 2024 on a fieldtrip at a farm.
Book cover, with blue artwork, of 'The left hand of darkness' by Ursula Le Guin.
Black office building of the Utrecht University
oil painting of a Dutch fishing boat in stormy weather
letter in yellow envelop with black text 'Urban Futures Studio Quarterly newsletter December 2024'
Photo collage depicting white-gloved hands blocking solar rays by holding a cloud and a mirror. (Heinrich Böll Stiftung, under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
People holding up protest signs in Dutch saying 'Hope', 'A new era', appetite for the future', 'Here is where I want to be', etc.