Feeling Futures #06: Eva & Finn from Futurall on Play, Hope, Grief, Risk and Organising Weird Parties

We were featured on the sixth episode of the podcast Feeling Futures, hosted by Aniela Fidler-Wieruszewska. We had a wonderful conversation reflecting on our approach and personal values, and Aniela managed to synthesise it so beautifully in the edit and accopnying interview blog. Feeling grateful to her!

Some of my favorite bits:

Together, [Finn&Eva] describe Futurall as living in a generative in-between: part participatory arts practice, part strategic foresight studio. The most exciting work, they suggest, happens in the messy middle, when organisations want to engage communities in futures work in ways that feel accessible, imaginative and alive.

Futures work isn’t always about inventing something entirely new. Sometimes it is about noticing existing examples, small experiments, lived alternatives, community practices that already hold the texture of another world. Perhaps futures can be less about abstract projection and more about visiting worlds that already exist in fragments.

‘Lots of speculative design puts an object in front of people, but as soon as we ask people to enact the future themselves, they have to put those analytical walls down.’ Finn reflected.' The experience becomes more personal. ’You’re stepping into the future rather than standing outside and analysing it.’"

"What helps a future stop feeling abstract and start feeling possible? For Eva, that shift often happens when people connect futures work to their own lives. A scenario becomes more real when it brushes up against memory, context, daily life. The future begins to feel less like a distant concept and more like something already partially present. She said. ‘It suddenly feels like it could be real.’ That moment can energise action. ‘If this is possible, then I can move towards it.’"

Check out the episode and accompanying article here.

& also check out the other Feeling Futures episodes!!