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Next Generation Foresight Practitioner Award to Reframeable’s Mel Rumble

Exciting news! Claire Marshall and Mel Rumble, the curators of the Museum of Futures, have won the ‘Oceania Special Award, Australia’ category of the Next Generation Foresight awards.

Claire and Mel have been appointed 2020 Next Generation Foresight Practitioner Fellows, and will soon begin an exciting collaborative process with the other 2020 fellows through the peer-to-peer NGFP Sensing Network, along with mentoring from international foresight thinkers, training webinars and meet-ups.

Details of all of the Next Generation Foresight award winners and fellows for 2020 can be found here.

New exhibition commissioned – Museum of Futures: Pandemic Pivots

We’re thrilled to announce that the Museum of Futures has received funding from the City of Sydney to create a new exhibition entitled Museum of Futures: Pandemic Pivots, which will bring artists and communities together to collaboratively co-design the futures they want amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. We are currently looking for artists who want to participate…

Calling potential artists…

We’re calling on 10 Sydney artists to create “objects from the future” that represent how 10 Sydney communities want the world to pivot in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. If selected to be part of this exhibition, artists will be given a budget of $1,000 to create their future artefacts.

Here’s the artists’ brief that we are circulating. Please pass this on to any artists/creatives/designers you know that might be interested.

Are you an artist interested in contributing?

• Fill in the Expression of Interest at: MuseumOfFutures.com/artists
• Please read the artists’ brief document before submitting your Expression of Interest form here
• Expressions of interest close at 9pm on Monday 3rd August 2020

Futures teaching at UTS Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation

Reframeable’s Mel Rumble has recently undertaken a range of teaching, tutoring and mentoring work within several futures-related subjects in the UTS Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation. This has included:

• March 2020 – April 2020: Mel was part of the team who designed and delivered the online version of Envisioning Futures (a fourth-year subject within the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII) in UTS’s Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation (FTDI)) to a cohort of 90+ students after a rapid Covid-19 pivot to online delivery
• December 2019 – February 2020: Co-design, co-delivery and mentoring for a new subject within the FTDI’s Futures Thinking strand called Making Futures, which ran in February 2020 across three weeks
• July 2019 & July 2020: Teaching and mentoring for the second year subject Past, Present, Future of Innovation within the FTDI’s BCII. This year Mel was part of the tutor team that ran this subject online to 250 students after a Covid-induced rapid pivot to remote learning

Futures Worth Wanting workshop for 2020 Sydney Festival

Reframeable’s Mel Rumble recently co-designed and co-delivered Futures Worth Wanting, a workshop in responsible innovation and futures prototyping for the 2020 Sydney Festival.

Check out the Sydney Festival program guide for details of the event… and stay tuned to the Museum of Futures, as the 8 objects created as part of Futures Worth Wanting will be live soon.

Museum of Futures

Reframeable’s Mel Rumble has embarked on an exciting collaboration with Claire Marshall of IfLabs, working on the next stage of the Museum of Futures.

See the Museum of Futures website for details of where you can currently view the museum, including the newly launched virtual gallery.