At the Flourishing Futures Lab, playful imagination became a way of seeing power more clearly. Through the Dreams and Disruptions game, PhD candidates and HDR students explored preposterous futures—from food nanobots and digital twins to water feudalism, creative economies, public health systems, and alien contact. What began as absurdity quickly became serious inquiry. Using Sarkar’s Law of Social Cycle, the scenarios shifted from asking “What might happen?” to “Who gets to

I'm excited to share that my article, "Dreams and Disruptions: Gaming Anti-Fragile Futures," has just been published in World Futures Review. This piece represents years of work developing and refining a foresight game that's been played in over 200 sessions worldwide—from military strategists and policymakers to youth activists and indigenous communities.