We build maps, methods, and literacies for navigating emerging landscapes. Our work focuses on path dependencies in knowledge generation, the on-ramps conventional futures conversations overlook, and the rigor required to act and build well in unprecedented times.
Occasional updates on calls, cohorts, and working papers. No spam.
Three commitments that shape everything we publish, fund, and host. Each holds the others accountable.
Scoping reviews, registered reports, transparent methods, and reproducible artifacts. Futures work earns its weight by showing the work, not by sounding the part.
Translating research into practical tools, frameworks, and decisions. We measure success by what changes downstream, not by what we publish.
Open colloquia, micro-cohorts, and public reviews. The honest field we want to belong to is one we have to help build.
A methodology for mapping concept trajectories and field landmarks for emerging researchers. Helps people working at intellectual frontiers see what shaped the terrain before they arrived.
View project →A curated cartography, comparative analysis, and open dataset of the organizations and movements shaping next-generation futurist thought — an orientation tool for researchers, practitioners, and early-career professionals entering the space.
View project · OSF preprint ↗Four initiatives building the Center's first full operating year. Express interest now to be on the early lists.
Defining alternatives, developing "Destination-Based Research," extending the FrontierMap project, and refining our descriptive (map), prescriptive (trace), evaluative (test) framework.
Read working papers →Centering missing voices and surfacing overlooked on-ramps to desirable futures. Full brief and timeline drop next week.
Join the interest list →A tiny, high-accountability fellowship (2–3 people) with weekly lab, public colloquium, and quarterly field day. Built for researchers actually trying to do the unusual work.
Apply for cohort →A builder-meets-policy gathering. Think AugLab × Princeton Envision × WeRobot with sharper analysis and a more honest conversation.
Be the first to know →This pivotal moment requires more than pontificating what comes next, or congratulating an argument that centers a particular silverbullet solution. The question is how do we understand the different leverage points within the system that operators, researchers, and builders will need to be aware of; the trajectories that shaped their current emergent structures, relative to other paths of development. These are the language, models, artifacts -- the new literacy -- we need to develop.Jes Parent · Director, Futures Center · 2026
We're seeking partners, cohort fellows, collaborators, and advisors to shape the residency, curriculum, and field-building work ahead.
Organizations interested in co-hosting, co-publishing, or institutional partnerships with the Center.
Open partnership form →For researchers and practitioners considering the 2026 micro-residency or future cohort programs.
Raise your hand →For writers and thinkers surfacing on-ramps to desirable futures that the mainstream conversation has overlooked.
See call (live soon) →Open sessions where the Center's working papers, methods, and questions are discussed publicly with collaborators.
See calendar →