Stuart Candy Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Monterrey, Nuevo León, MX

Faculty of Excellence professor in the School of Architecture, Art and Design (EAAD), working to embed curricular, institutional, and cultural foresight capacity across creative education, leadership, and wider social contexts.

Los Angeles, US

Situation Lab designs immersive and generative situations for the public good, for clients, and for kicks. We are award-winning creators and publishers of frameworks for supporting individual and group creativity, including THE THING FROM THE FUTURE, FUTURESCHOOL, and THE FUTURES BAZAAR. Co-directed with Professor Kiki Benzon of the University of Southern.

Pasadena, CA, US

Curatorial Advisor for the art/science exhibition “Blended Worlds”, staged by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory with Glendale Libraries, for the Getty Museum’s once-per-decade initiative “PST”. Also a Contributing Artist; created the experiential futures project “Library of Possibilities”, where books from various futures, inspired by my conversations with.

Paris, Paris, FR

“The Expert Group on Strategic Foresight consists of leading foresight methodologists in academia, governments and the private sector, reporting to the OECD Secretary-General.”

San Francisco, CA, US

A founding Member and the first Fellow of the Long Now. Contributions to initiatives including Long Bets, the Long Now blog, the Long Shorts video series, SALT lectures, the 20th anniversary Member Summit, and the Long Conversation relay event. Also proposed the Long Now motto: “Carpe Millennium.”

Bristol, GB

Designed as a hybrid of professorship and artist residency, this intensive visiting role in summer 2024 was set up as a collaboration with the ESRC Centre for Sociodigital Futures and the Pervasive Media Studio, to put experiential futures (XF) practices into dialogue with the concerns, interests, and skill sets of stakeholders across the University.

New York, NY, US

Full time professor at The New School. Responsibilities included integrating foresight/futures into the design curriculum at Parsons, leading a futures initiative for the institution - reporting to the Executive Director, and developing a collaborative exec education offering between Parsons and the Royal College of Art.

Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, KR

Designer and instructor for the core grad course in Futures Studies, previously taught by Prof. Jim Dator, at the national technical research university, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, in the Moon Soul Graduate School of Future Strategy.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

Design professor focused on foresight/futures practice, teaching, and scholarship. Courtesy appointments in the School of Architecture, Entertainment Technology Center, and Block Center for Technology and Society.

London, England, GB

Creator and writer of THE FUTURES BAZAAR (with Filippo Cuttica), an open access toolkit for public imagination, co-published by the BBC and Situation Lab. Recognized in the Core77 Design Awards, as well as in the Association of Professional Futurists’ Most Significant Futures Work Awards, the first ever winner in the Inclusive Foresight category.

Los Angeles, California, US

A fully funded, independent research fellowship hosted at the University of Southern California. During this period I co-created an award-winning public imagination toolkit published by Situation Lab and the BBC, launched a long-term project about bringing foresight systematically into journalism with an editor from The New York Times, and advised on.

Cologny, Geneva, CH

Exploring foresight and experiential futures approaches to supporting strategic conversation and public policy convenings of the World Economic Forum. A collaboration with the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Geneva, Geneva, CH

Served as a founding member of the organization’s first Foresight Advisory Board, and Special Advisor to the Global Head of Innovation and Solferino Academy.

Washington, DC, US

Advised the curation team and served on the invited Working Group for FUTURES, which hosted 650,000 visitors from November 2021 to July 2022 in the Arts + Industries Building on the National Mall.

New York, NY, US

Designed and ran (with Ceda Verbakel) a novel experiential futures project commissioned for the United Nations Development Programme's annual innovation event. Won the Core77 Speculative Design Award.

Paris, Ile De France, FR

Curator (with Riel Miller and team), process designer and facilitator for the Futures Literacy Design Forum staged at UNESCO in 2019, and program advisor and convenor for the high-level Futures Literacy Summit held online during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

Chicago, IL, US

During a year at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I taught or advised MArch, MDDO, MFA and undergraduate students, and created courses in “American Futures” and “Future Documentary”.

Toronto, On, CA

Tenure track professor of Strategic Foresight and Innovation in the Faculty of Design at Canada's oldest and largest art/design school. Also taught in the graduate Digital Futures and undergraduate Design programs.

Pasadena, CA, US

Visiting Lecturer in the graduate Media Design Practices program, running the Critical Frameworks Lab in Fall 2016, “We Are As Gods”.

Rio De Janeiro, RJ, BR

The first Artist in Residence and Fellow of the Museum of Tomorrow, in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics.

Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, MX

Co-creator and leader (with Jake Dunagan) of the Design Futures Master Class and the Design Futures Intensive, for changemakers, worldbuilders, entrepreneurs, designers, and educators.

Durham, North Carolina, US

Course designer and lead instructor for The Futures School, an intensive residential summer program in futures and design at Duke University's long-running Talent Identification Program. This course earned the highest student evaluations of all programs offered.

London, London, GB

Strategic conversation, futures research, thought leadership, advocacy and collaborative development of new initiatives. Reported to Global Foresight Director and Regional Board.

London, London, GB

Foresight and innovation role with both internally and externally facing responsibilities, reporting to the Global Foresight Director.

Singapore, SG

“School for the Future” was an intensive course created and run together with three friends and colleagues (Aaron Maniam, Noah Raford and Teddy Zmrhal), covering futures thinking, scenario planning and experiential futures. Taught at the University Scholars Programme (USP) at NUS.

San Francisco, CA, US

Devised and taught the first two iterations of the Strategic Foresight course for the MBA program in Design Strategy, with Jay Ogilvy (GBN) and then Jake Dunagan (IFTF). Started as an elective and become a core course.

San Francisco, CA, US

Ideation and concept development with editor Chris Baker on multiple instances of the monthly back-page feature “Found: Artifacts from the Future”.

Berkeley, CA, US

Helped to run Strategy By Design, part of the Haas School of Business MBA curriculum, including scenario planning and strategic management modules. With Global Business Network cofounder Jay Ogilvy and IDEO director Teddy Zmrhal.

Honolulu, HI, US

Diverse project and management responsibilities in applied foresight and strategy, for local, national and international partners.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Served as Game Master on the team running Superstruct, an award-winning alternate reality game for over 7000 players around the world.

London, GB

Through London-based foresight consultancy Fast Future, contributed research and writing for two horizon scanning pilot projects conducted for POST's then-nascent Centre of Excellence in Horizon Scanning, serving multiple UK government agencies.

London, England, GB

Oversaw a health futures research project for the NHSU (National Health Service University) initiative, a university intended to serve the whole NHS employee base of about 1.5 million people.

Canberra, ACT, AU

Conducted qualitative research for the Sophisticated Crime and Regulation Program on various topics including international kidnap and ransom, biometric technologies, immigration fraud, and emerging issues associated with the rise of electronic commerce.

Ba / Llb (Hons)

School Of Law

Ma + Phd, Political Science / Futures Studies

Graduate Degree Fellowships, Ma + Phd