Speculative Futures Book Launch

Celebrate the launch of Speculative Futures

Join author Johanna Hoffman to celebrate the launch of Speculative Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need, for a conversation and celebration about how imagination can help us build a more resilient world.

About Speculative Futures

Speculative futures – design approaches that visualize new and potential worlds – move us beyond what currently exists into the realms of what could be. Long used in art, film, fiction, architecture, and industrial design, the tools employ speculation to provoke, imagine, and dream into what lies ahead. Written for futurists, strategists, urbanists, artists, and readers looking to enact city-wide transformation, the book offers creative paths toward urban resilience, using design tools that already exist.

Praise for Speculative Futures

"Essential reading for these times." - Michael Batty, author of Inventing Future Cities

"Anyone who aspires to more vibrant and resilient futures at all scales should read this book." - Stuart Candy, Professor of Design and Experiential Futures Advisor for NASA

"Speculative Futures is a guidebook to help us move beyond the pessimism and polarization of our time, and build the better, more caring communities we need." Richard Florida, author of the The New Urban Crisis

About Johanna Hoffman

Johanna Hoffman is an urbanist, researcher, and writer working in the space between design, planning, fiction, and futures. A founder of the research and action institute Design for Adaptation, she uses strategic planning and speculative practice to help communities, cities, and organizations survey the impacts of potential futures and spur proactive adaptation. She holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning from UC Berkeley and has been a fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the European Futures Observatory and USC. Her work has been honored by institutions from MIT to the Berggruen Institute. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more, visit https://johannahoffman.com

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