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Designing the Futures We Imagine | Anab Jain & Anand Pandian

Designing the Futures We Imagine | Anab Jain & Anand Pandian

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This episode bridges speculative design, anthropology, ecological art, education, environmental ethics, material culture, and futures thinking to ask: how can imagination become a practical tool for building more open, connected, and livable worlds?Anab Jain, co-founder and creative director of Superflux and professor of Design Investigations at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, joins Johns Hopkins anthropologist Anand Pandian, author of Something Between Us and A Possible Anthropology, for a Curiosity Entangled conversation about speculative futures, ecological imagination, design, anthropology, and the more-than-human world. Together, they discuss how immersive experiences can make alternative futures tangible, why boredom and open-mindedness matter, and how art and design can create space for people to form their own relationships with possible worlds.They also explore authoritarianism and the political danger of imagination, Superflux’s future-home installations, the Jones Falls 2076 project in Baltimore, buried urban rivers, the afterlives of discarded objects, and the idea of the “Craftocene”—using craft, repair, and material experimentation to reverse the logic of consumption. Their conversation moves through abandoned vape batteries, aluminum cans, speculative artifacts, future museums, ecological education, community-building, hope, and the challenge of remaining creatively engaged when the future feels overwhelming.⸻TIMESTAMPS00:00:31 - Introductions: speculative design, anthropology, and shared inspiration00:04:35 - Possibility as embodied experience, not just an idea00:08:12 - Boredom, Walter Benjamin, and minds allowed to wander00:12:51 - Open-mindedness, jugaad, and wisdom from rural fieldwork00:23:03 - A lived 2050 apartment and imagination as slow activism00:26:16 - Jones Falls 2076: dreaming a buried river back to life00:34:10 - Telling terrible stories beautifully: loss and the Craftocene00:38:44 - Foraged vapes, burned cans, and reversing supply chains00:44:20 - The Future of Here: a culture built from what we discard00:48:30 - Museums of the future and objects that catch stories01:01:10 - Community, collective organizing, and sustaining hope01:07:46 - Getting unstuck: cognitive precarity and hope as making⸻GUESTSAnab Jain - Designer, Futurist & EducatorCo-Founder and Director, Superflux (London)Professor of Design Investigations, University of Applied Arts Viennahttps://superflux.in/https://superflux.in/index.php/team/a...Anand Pandian - Anthropologist, Professor & AuthorProfessor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins UniversityAuthor of A Possible Anthropology and Reel Worldhttps://anand.studio/https://anthropology.jhu.edu/director...⸻RELATED TOPICSSpeculative design, anthropology, ecological design, ecological imagination, experiential futures, futures thinking, more-than-human world, environmental ethics, open-mindedness, authoritarianism, immersive installations, climate change, storytelling, boredom, material culture, repair, waste, consumerism, Craftocene, Jones Falls 2076, buried rivers, urban ecology, discarded objects, future museums, speculative anthropology, design education, radical pedagogy, community, hope, art and science, longform conversation⸻FOLLOW ACCELERATOR MEDIATwitter/X: https://x.com/xceleratormediaInstagram: / xcelerator.medialinkedin: / accelerator-media-orgwebsite: https://acceleratormedia.org⸻ABOUT CURIOSITY ENTANGLEDCuriosity Entangled pairs distinguished thinkers from different disciplines for unscripted conversations about consciousness, science, technology, and humanity’s long-term future. Hosted by Accelerator Media, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to public engagement with science and long-term thinking.
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