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2013 UH Futures Meeting: Designing Urban Futures
Saturday, April 13 the University of Houston’s Futurists hosted the meeting City Making in the 21st Century: Designing Urban Futures. We had an amazing turn out of about 40 attendees...
What do we call it?
It’s been great to hear growing interest in developing the field and profession of _______, um, what do you call it? I looked at this [...]
Certificate Alum Passing it On!
Two of our certificate program alums, Joel Ticknor and Byron Anderson, have developed and are teaching foresight courses, at George Mason University and U of [...]
Journal of Futures Studies – featuring our own Futurists
Congratulations are in order for Houston's own Janet Faulkner and Christopher Manfredi, both published in the March 2013 edition of Journal of Futures Studies. The [...]
The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future
Dr. Natasha Vita-More (Grad '06) has co-edited a new book, The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human [...]
Houston Futures hosts the gathering: City-Making in the 21st Century–Designing Urban Futures
Houston Futures will host the gathering: City-Making in the 21st Century – Designing Urban Futures this April 12th and 13th. Students, faculty, alums (Master’s & [...]
Communicating the Future by Alum Pam McConathy Schied
Communicating the Future by Pam McConathy Schied Alum Pam McConathy Schied gave a guest lecture to Seminar class last week on "Communicating the [...]
Alumni William Thurmond on Biofuels
Check out the Greater Houston Partnership meeting where Houston alumni and founder of Emerging Markets Online, Will Thurmond, introduces Houston's Biofuels Task Force and speaks [...]
Alumni Young Tag Cho's Work
Young Tag Cho (’12) was in Houston this week, and he gave this coin from his unit to Dr. Bishop on Wednesday. Cho is a [...]
Student Work: Reality Check on "A Theory of Everything"
Welcome to the first posting of student work from last semester's "Alternative Perspectives" class. The class was a popular one and, in my view, the [...]
Big Data, Cities, Simulations and the Future
I read an interesting piece in the Sunday NY Times a few weeks ago called “SimCity for Real” Measuring an Untidy Metropolis.” It talked about [...]
Jay Gary Guest Lecture on Professionalization
We were very pleased to have Jay Gary, PhD, Assistant Professor at Regent University’s Strategic Foresight program was a guest to our ProSeminar class. He discussed his research [...]