Stuck Between Fight, Flight, and Freeze

I just published a piece I’ve been struggling to write for months:Unlearning Helplessness: Violence and the Collapse of Political Imagination It comes from a place of deep frustration—with the violence, with the paralysis, with how easy it’s become to accept the unacceptable. We’re stuck in survival mode. Fight, flight, freeze. Again and again. This isn’t … Continue reading Stuck Between Fight, Flight, and Freeze

Launching: MapFutur.es — a map of Future Screenshots

MapFutur.es is an online map that gathers fragments of imagined futures: “future screenshots”—speculative visions shaped as tweets, chats, maps, protest signs, or headlines. They’re not predictions. They’re provocations. They ask: what might still be possible? What futures are already taking shape in how we grieve, resist, and imagine? The Futures Map is nonlinear. It’s organized … Continue reading Launching: MapFutur.es — a map of Future Screenshots

Imagining Futures: The Power of Futures Thinking in Uncertain Times @ The Joods Museum, Amsterdam

Visit the exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam from 19 June 2005—11 January 2026 The installation Imagining Futures. The power of futures thinking in uncertain times explores how people, in times of crisis, can and dare to imagine different futures – and what that can mean for them.  The installation presents several people who live in the … Continue reading Imagining Futures: The Power of Futures Thinking in Uncertain Times @ The Joods Museum, Amsterdam

On Future Screenshots and Political Imagination [article]

In the aftermath of October 7th, the future between the river and the sea has felt increasingly illegible—narrowed by grief, fear, and polarized certainties. Future Screenshots is a response to that closing horizon. It’s an invitation to imagine again. The project collects speculative glimpses into possible futures—captured as if from social media, protest signs, maps, … Continue reading On Future Screenshots and Political Imagination [article]

No exit — every feed is a traffic jam @ UX Collective

Infinitely scrolling down alternative feeds is getting us nowhere. To reinvent social media, we must imagine new socials. In the past few years, we’ve been experiencing a rough fallout from our prolonged honeymoon with social media. The imminent decline of Facebook and the chaos in Twitter opened the appetite for something different. Many of us … Continue reading No exit — every feed is a traffic jam @ UX Collective

Towards Teleportation—Wayfinding Maps & Mapfinding Ways @ Re:publica 2023

I was excited to return to Re:publica to talk about why I think we’ve been optimizing technology towards teleportation. Check out the video documentation and the talk description: Your GPS app directs you, turn-by-turn, on the quickest route from A to B. At the same time, it also defines time as the single, non-exchangeable currency … Continue reading Towards Teleportation—Wayfinding Maps & Mapfinding Ways @ Re:publica 2023