Stuart Candy - Faculty

Dr. Stuart Candy is a pioneer of experiential futures, a family of practices for supporting collective foresight through media, the arts, and design. With a background spanning law, the history and philosophy of science, and musical theatre, for two decades he has seeded and grown approaches to rigorous imagining and co-creation that are now used worldwide.

A frequent advisor and collaborator on cultural, educational, governance, and organizational initiatives, Dr. Candy has worked with Fortune 100 companies, UN agencies, the International Red Cross, World Energy Council, Smithsonian Institution, Dubai Museum of the Future, Oxford University, the BBC, The New York Times, the Obama Foundation, U.S. Conference of Mayors, and cities from Melbourne to Mexico.

He has held academic appointments at leading universities and design schools including the inaugural professorship in Social Foresight at Parsons School of Design in New York, and fellowships at the East-West Center (Hawaii), Museum of Tomorrow (Brazil), INK (India), Berggruen Institute, World Economic Forum, and The Long Now Foundation.

Dr. Candy is a member of the OECD’s Expert Group on Strategic Foresight, chair of the Center for PostNatural History, and founding director of the creative research unit and award-winning publisher Situation Lab. He recently served as curatorial advisor for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Getty-backed exhibition in Los Angeles, “Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination”.

Stuart Candy joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Critical Futures for the School of Architecture, Art and Design. 

• Ph.D., Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
• M.A., Political Science (Alternative Futures), University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
• LL.B. (Hons), University of Melbourne
• B.A., History & Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne

• Cuttica, Filippo & Candy, Stuart. (2022). The Futures Bazaar: A Public Imagination Toolkit.
• Luria, Michal & Candy, Stuart. (2022). Letters from the Future: Exploring Ethical Dilemmas in the Design of Social Agents. 10.1145/3491102.3517536. 
• Candy, Stuart & Kornet Weber, Kelly. (2019). Turning Foresight Inside Out: An Introduction to Ethnographic Experiential Futures. Journal of Futures Studies. 23. 3-22. 10.6531/JFS.201903_23(3).0002. 
• Hayward, Peter & Candy, Stuart. (2017). The Polak Game, or: Where do you stand?. Journal of Futures Studies. 22. 5-14. 10.6531/JFS.2017.22(2).A5. 
• Candy, Stuart. (2010). The Futures of Everyday Life: Politics and the Design of Experiential Scenarios. 10.13140/RG.2.1.1840.0248.  

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