Walk the Futures is a guided walking experience exploring what life in your local area might feel like in the year 2055, through stories, reflection, and the places you already know.
Take part in a local event (English & German)
Currently, we are running the Innsbruck Edition of Walk the Futures. Find our upcoming events below: each one is place-specific, reflective, and participatory.
Want to bring Walk the Futures to your space? Here’s how →
Innsbruck Edition — 18 Oktober (Sprache: 🇦🇹)
Geführter Spaziergang + kreativer Workshop | ~5,5-6 Stunden
Kostenlos zur Teilnahme | Bewerben →
Innsbruck Edition — 15 November (Sprache: 🇦🇹)
Geführter Spaziergang + kreativer Workshop | ~5,5-6 Stunden
Kostenlos zur Teilnahme | Bewerben →
Local editions
Find all Walk the Futures walkshop for your city or space.
Bring a Walk the Futures walkshop to your town, space or event
Would you like to host a Walk the Futures walkshop in your city, space, community, or programme?
Walk the Futures is available for collaboration with museums, city teams, festivals, and conferences. Have something else in mind? Let’s explore what’s possible.
Learn more about the project
Walk the Futures is an independent, non-profit research initiative created by facilitator, foresight practitioner and and futures researcher Suzanne Whitby.
Curious about the research behind Walk the Futures and how a walkshop works? Learn more this experience was developed, what it explores, and who it’s for.
About the researcher
Suzanne Whitby is a foresight practitioner, facilitator and storyteller. As a futures researcher interested in citizen-level engagement and wicked problems, she conducts research as a PhD candidate in the Heritage Studies Department at the VU in Amsterdam. She explores how storytelling, the senses, place, and participation can help citizens engage with complex social and environmental futures, creating novel methods and practical tools that people can use to change themselves, their communities and maybe even the world.
She is the creator the Walk the Futures walkshops and of the associated senstoryscapes approach, and regularly speaks about hopeful, sustainable futures, speculative storytelling, and public imagination, often in the context of climate change.
Learn more at her personal website , or visit her professional websites, Futures Fit and SciComm Success .
Reflections
This is an occasional blog, sharing short posts and inspirations linked to sensory storytelling, place-based methods, and reflections from the field. It may eventually include thoughts from specific walkshops. Light touch, no overwhelm.
An immersive soundscape in Forest 404
Is it possible for sensory experiences to shift how we think and act so that we can co-create hopeful, sustainable futures? This is the focus of my work at Futures Fit, and my PhD research so I am going to venture a cautious, “Yes, I believe it is but we’ll have to see what the data tells us.”
Curious? Get in touch!
If you:
- Think there’s a conversation to be had about climate futures, Walk the Futures, or something related
- Are looking for a presenter or speaker on storytelling, futures, or public imagination
- Want to host a walkshop in your city, space, or event
- Need a contributor for a podcast, article, or public event
- Have an exciting idea for collaboration
- Or simply want to say hi!
…then get in touch.
Use the form below to send a message, book a call in Suzanne’s calendar, or send an email to hi@walkthefutures.org.