Zia Sardar's guest appearances

Zia Sardar

FuturePod

Peter Bishop

Jim Lee

John Sweeney

Adam Kahane

Riel Miller

Tanja Hichert

Jim Dator

Rene Rohrbeck

Cindy Frewen

Joseph Voros

Steve Tighe

Bridgette Engeler

Richard Slaughter

Rowena Morrow

Susan Oliver

OwlTail

Richard Hames

Conversation question: “What next for the field of foresight? How can we move on from the foundation methods and tools that seem to have us locked in their grip? How can we become more relevant and more practical? How can we approach design from different ontological frameworks.“

Conversation question: “What next for the field of foresight? How can we move on from the foundation methods and tools that seem to have us locked in their grip? How can we become more relevant and more practical? How can we approach design from different ontological frameworks.“

EP 64: FuturePod Conversations - Zia Sardar and Richard Hames

Zia explains his ideas of the Familiar Future and the Unspoken Future and he challenges those who work in our field to actually make a contribution to ensure that the Future is open and is not 'colonised' by those currently holding power and privilege.Ziauddin (Zia) Sardar is an Islamic polymath and who also edited the field’s flagship journal ‘Futures’. His scholarship into Muslim Futures brought him into the community and he stayed. His latest foray is into postnormal times which Zia believes is the zeitgeist of our era. He is a driving force behind the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Future Studies. Zia explains the 3Cs of postnormal times; Complexity, Chaos and Contradictions, and also introduces some of its menagerie; the Black Elephants, Jellyfish amd Swans.

Zia explains his ideas of the Familiar Future and the Unspoken Future and he challenges those who work in our field to actually make a contribution to ensure that the Future is open and is not 'colonised' by those currently holding power and privilege.Ziauddin (Zia) Sardar is an Islamic polymath and who also edited the field’s flagship journal ‘Futures’. His scholarship into Muslim Futures brought him into the community and he stayed. His latest foray is into postnormal times which Zia believes is the zeitgeist of our era. He is a driving force behind the Centre for Postnormal Policy and Future Studies. Zia explains the 3Cs of postnormal times; Complexity, Chaos and Contradictions, and also introduces some of its menagerie; the Black Elephants, Jellyfish amd Swans.

EP 32: Suspended Between No Longer and Not Yet - Zia Sardar