The Museum of Futures: Pandemic Pivots

About the event:
The Museum of Futures is a collection of interactive exhibitions that highlight the role we all play in shaping the future. In this talk, the curators of the Museum of Futures Claire Marshall and Mel Rumble will give an outline of their latest exhibition Pandemic Pivots which was funded by the City of Sydney.

Event agenda:
5:25 pm "doors" open
5:30 pm talk begins (~30 mins)
6:00 Q&A + wrap up
6:30 event ends

About Speakers
Claire Marshall is an award-winning creative whose work melds story-telling, futures thinking and experiential learning. She is the founder of If Labs, a company that explores our imagined futures. Her latest work is the Museum of Futures an exhibition exploring our futures with climate change. In 2020 she was invited to create a new exhibit of the Museum of Futures for the Emerge Festival run by Arizona State University. She is an experienced speaker and facilitator and has presented at conferences all over the world. She has developed a series of games including ‘Wish for the Future’ with Dr Ele Jansen which has been played by organisations including UNESCO and Google. She has run workshops in Blockchain, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism. She lectures for the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney in experiential futures and futures thinking.

Mel is a Sydney-based futures designer, UX/digital producer and curator.
Also a co-curator (alongside Claire Marshall) of the latest Museum of Futures exhibition, Pandemic Pivots, and a futures designer at Reframeable and Action Foresight. Mel is also a casual academic for several futures subjects in the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation at UTS. She’s a 2020 NextGen Foresight Practitioner Fellow and holds a Master of Strategic Foresight from Swinburne.