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

The game employs an innovative method integrating aspirational futures (dreams) and potential crises (disruptions).