Editorial Advisory Committee //

To ensure the process is inclusive, we will have a wide and varying panel of reviewers who will review submissions anonymously.

• Lonny Brooks

  Associate Professor in the department of communication at California State University, East Bay, where he has piloted the integration of futures thinking into the communication curriculum for the last fifteen years. Emerging in recent years as a leading voice of Afrofuturism 2.0, Brooks contributes prolifically to journals, conferences and anthologies on the subject, as well as serving as executive producer and co-creator, with Ahmed Best, of The Afrofuturist Podcast. He is currently the lead co-editor for a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Futures Studies: “When is Wakanda? Afrofuturism and Dark Speculative Futurity”. He is lead organizer in Oakland and advisory board member for the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM), co-founded by Reynaldo Anderson, a national and global movement dedicated to celebrating the Black imagination and design. Dr. Brooks serves as Creative Director for BSAM Futures, which aims to promote, publish and teach forecasting with Afrocentric perspectives in mind using gaming and facilitation for imaginative, action-oriented thinking. He also volunteers as a core member for outreach at Dynamicland.org, a pioneering non-profit dedicated to creating a more collaborative and dynamic computational medium for the long term. He has a passion for creating games to envision social justice futures including black and queer liberation from Afro-Rithms From The Future to United Queerdom and Futurescope, he and his co-game designer Eli Kosminsky are committed to articulating emerging new future visions for traditionally underrepresented voices. He is currently writing his book Imagining Queer Futures with Afrofuturism@Futureland: Circulating Afro-Queer futuretypes of Work, Culture and Racial Identity.

• Nick Larsen

  “I'm a Senior Advisor at the non-profit, futures think tank, Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, and I teach as external lecturer at the Danish National School of Performing Arts and at the IT-University Copenhagen. I have grown up in the field of futures studies and practiced large scale strategic foresight and thought leadership projects in health, media and retail in a pioneering think tank for almost a decade.

  While the demand for foresight today, for all its merits in strategy, risk management and innovation, is still mostly commercially rooted, I sense that the market is developing in a more altruistic and public direction, as governments are gearing up to represent and safeguard the interests of future generations. 

  I cherish the educational systems that has begun to acknowledge the value of training students’ anticipatory capabilities and the cultural institutions that explore their role in democratizing futures for a wider audience.  

   In my recent work I was appointed curator for UNESCO’s Futures Literacy Summit, I have been on the SteerCo for the Future Oriented Museum Synergies network organised by Museum of Tomorrow International, and I have integrated futures studies in various curricula across art, design and business domains in Denmark. Currently, I am heading CIFS' Arts and Culture research and initiatives, while also exploring synergies in futures studies and philanthropy. 

  It’s in these intersections that I believe I can make a difference.”

• Parsons & Charlesworth

  An art and design studio that develops tangible worlds as discursive tools for critically appraising urgent issues. Co-founded by Jessica Charlesworth and Tim Parsons, the studio’s investigative, research-driven, speculative approach uses installation, sculpture, designed objects, writing, photography and digital media to explore key social, ecological and technological challenges of our time, including climate change, the future of work, and the ethics of technology.

  Parsons & Charlesworth have exhibited in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals around the world including 17th International Architecture Exhibition- La Biennale di Venezia, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (MAAT Lisbon), Science Gallery Dublin, Istanbul Design Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), London Design Festival and the Chicago Cultural Center.

• Phil Balagtas

  “I’ve spent the last 20 years designing digital products and the last decade thinking about the future. I’ve worked at a variety of organizations building digital products and services and have worked across industrial and commercial sectors building both B2B and B2C applications. I also founded a nonprofit and community on Futures Design and Thinking—an approach that utilizes Strategic Foresight and Speculative Design to understand the opportunities and challenges ahead so that they may develop more informed and resilient strategies today. While i’ve worked on many digital products, I leverage my experience from working across sectors to find new ways to help organizations develop novel solutions and strategies.

  I’ve also spent over a decade advocating for Futures thinking and have applied it within a number of contexts and organizations. Today I am helping companies use Futures as a practical, and accessible design and strategy tool for people to craft more informed business strategies and design solutions.”

• Aarathi Krishnan

  “My work focuses on reimagining futures for social change, the ecosystem in which it operates in and on strategic organisational transformation required to make change happen. I work at the intersection of humanitarian futures, strategic foresight, and systems transformation.

  I am inherently curious about how things work and about why things don't — and how do we need to shift the systemic and structural pillars that we don't necessarily talk about to actually drive change. I push and provoke on issues of equity, intersectionality, power and privilege — and how we might transform them to more decolonised, equitable and feminist futures.”

• More reviewers to be announced soon.

If you would like to be a reviewer please contact InWhichWeExist@gmail.com to express your interest. Please note reviewers are not eligible to submit.