“Superflux began with a napkin sketch, and I still have it! It was during the credit crisis in 2008 when Jon was working on his own start-up, and I was at Nokia.”

Are you looking for a community of practice to co-create different futures? Look no further and join The Remix! hosted by The Spaceship Earth Podcast / Becoming Crew. A six months (un)learning course to develop life-centric habits & practices courageous creativity in service to life. 👉becomingcrew.com/theremix-24

I really, really love our department. Friendly; research and teaching with purpose. Thinking about the impacts of climate change and other big issues on people of the world, not just abstract problem-solving. Academia with heart and meaning. Come and join us! <3

📅 Join us on 20 March for a webinar on Communicating #TippingPoints

Hear from Colin Butfield, Studio Silverback, @AnabJain Superflux, Tim Kelly #EarthHQ , @HannaHofmann7, @Dvdmckay, Félix Pharand-Deschênes GLOBAÏA and @MayaRebermark The Earth Commission Future Earth.

Learn more ⬇️

🔔 New paper alert.🔔

Why Britain needs Tech for Today - not just for tomorrow

Technology roll-out often gets overlooked in favour of dazzling new innovation, but what use is technology if it can't deliver a better quality of life for everyone, everywhere?

I made an AI clock for my bookshelves! It tells the time with a new poem EVERY MINUTE composed by ChatGPT. And it has... weird vibes??

tl;dr it's on Kickstarter as of right now

I want to tell you the story because I didn't mean to do this...

🌟Starting the new year with a job📣 We're hiring a Studio & Operations Manager Superflux!
Come join our small but mighty team to help us give shape to an active movement of systemic, collective, alternate futures. Deadline 25th Jan⚡️
superflux.in/index.php/were…

'we started with cautionary tales and early warnings - but they're our reality now ... we've moved on from speculative realism to foreground our ecological entanglements'. Super-timely conversation in DING with Julia Kloiber @[email protected] & Anab Jain dingdingding.org/issue-5/from-a…

This beautiful piece from Superflux stopped me in my tracks today…

Over the moon to announce this very exciting discussion I'm hosting Design Investigations! With Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti, Fiona Raby, Zoy Anastassakis, Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Rory Hyde + Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti & Angela Neubauer. FREE signup here: eventbrite.at/e/765174035137

WRONG WAY is out today! And it’s the November Esquire Book Club pick! I had a wonderful time speaking with Adrienne Westenfeld about long commutes, writing characters who aren’t motivated by money, and the failed promises of AI esquire.com/entertainment/…

UK friends, a reminder that there is a UK edition to be had!

penguin.co.uk/books/461276/h…

You can also read an extract as a The Guardian Long Read:

theguardian.com/news/2023/nov/…

As a humanitarian worker I was told “comms is everything”. It’s true. It’s how you get help when you’re under threat. It’s how we knew where to go & what to do, how you communicate urgent needs. Communication, water & fuel to Gaza must be restored. Civilian lives depend on it.

✨Launch: 'Futuring Off Center' – A collection of essays and interviews diving into futuring practices aimed at fostering equity and social justice dingdingding.org
Feat. Taeyoon Choi Anab Jain Luiza Prado ☭🌹🇵🇸 olondria's bravest soldier 🌬️ 𓅙 Shalev Moran [email protected] Mushon Zer Aviv Pupul Bisht Joana Varon🧵

the best possible feedback 😍

We literally have some big art wrapping the façade of Bush House on the Strand! First time for us Superflux to develop such a public work, with thanks to King's Culture 💫 Come by and spend some time with The Quiet Enchanting ✨

(📸Guy Bell, ft The Guardian)

Beautiful and critical words from Anab Jain at the opening of The Quiet Enchanting Superflux

“The words we use are important and any words that establish a binary are profoundly dangerous. Any words that establish an either/or, them/us, will never lead to safety or freedom.”

The 10th ed. of #tacticspractice in 2021 saw writer & tech journalist #MartaPeirano conduct a festival of conversations titled (re)programming.

These discussions have now been adapted into a #podcast series. First episode airs tomorrow!
🎧 Tune in at: aksioma.org/podcast

Mining the minerals essential for a green energy transition may appear to solve a problem, but there never is just one problem.

noemamag.com/radical-design…

If you're at #ClimateWeekNYC go visit the Action Speaks Summit – a 2 storey multi-sensory experience & exhibition space we've created with Ingka, Project Drawdown and TimeC02. Step into a New York set in 2050, and explore global climate positive actions. ingka.com/action-speaks-…