Unsee The Future

In this special 14th episode, Momo meets Nicola Cartlidge, Theatre & Venues Manager for AUB, who walks us around the renovating spaces of the Palace Court Theatre, to discuss what it means to hold space for creative risk-taking – and to help make place in the process. Commissioned by Pier Journal, this is the informal recording of the interview for issue #8 of the magazine, which you can find out more about at pierjournal.co.uk.

In this special 13th episode, Momo meets Penelope Norman, head of MA Fashion Technology at Arts University Bournemouth and talks about her involvement with the AUB Innovation Studio. Commissioned by Pier Journal, this is the informal recording of the interview for issue #7 of the magazine, which you can find out more about at pierjournal.co.uk.

In this pre-new series summer special, Timo Peach chats with Dominic Wong, festival director of Bournemouth Writing Festival, and welcomes back creative amigos Simon, Andy and Lee to find out how they got on witha special creative commision. In a keynote talk in April, commission by Dominic for the event, Timo finished with a challenge to all the writers in the AUB Exploratorium: Write a solarpunk short story. In this episode we hear how these three and another festival attendee, Hannah Hulbert, adapted to the world of solarpunk, facing the challenges and fears of engaging with speculative futures that aren't simply dystopian. We hear the premise of each of their stories and discuss how they were affected by the process. Do even scifi creators find solarpunk daunting? Can non-scifi lovers write good future stories? Find the complete episode homepage at: https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/utf-the-hopeychattybits-summer-special-writing-a-solarpunk-story

In this special end of year eleventh episode, Momo meets three of his dearest creative mates, Simon, Andy and Lee, to see how much they shred his first draft ideas for… the full Momo:tempo musical. Musician, illustrator, writer and broadcaster Simon Brett and actor, writer, musician and broadcaster Lee Rawlings join writer-director and co-producer of Five Songs To Help Us Unsee The Future Andy Robinson. to chat with Mr Peach about how they each approach storytelling, starting and refining ideas, making emotional connection to ideas, the wonderous training ground of science fiction and the likelyhood of them all finally launching their podcast. Including a special little reveal of the brand for The Shape of Things To Hum ahead of Momo’s 2023 creative campaign. Find the complete episode homepage at: https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/utf-the-hopeychattybits-the-boys-from-intertwingularity/

Timo Peach meets artists, solarpunks and changemakers re-imagining the stories we think we're in. In the last episode of this first season, TImo meets the visionary artist, writer and mentor of sacred women’s wisdom. Discover the episode homepage here, including a video special with some extras, alongside a glimpse at our chat in the Sherling Studio of Lighthouse Poole: https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/utf-the-hopeychattybits-hazel-evans/

Timo Peach meets artists, solarpunks and changemakers re-imagining the stories we think we're in. In this ninth episode, Timo Peach meets the author, academic, educator, maker, arts critic, researcher, poet and Indigenous thinker. Find the complete episode homepage at: https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/utf-the-hopeychattybits-tyson-yunkaporta/

Timo Peach meets artists, solarpunks and changemakers re-imagining the stories we think we're in. In this eighth episode, Timo Peach meets the Sociology & Anthropology accademic writing a PhD in Solarpunk. Find the complete episode homepage at: https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/utf-the-hopeychattybits-ivy-scurr

Timo Peach meets artists, solarpunks and changemakers re-imagining the stories we think we're in. In this seventh episode, Timo Peach meets the Sugargamer and solarpunk working at the intersection of Imagination, Tech, Community, and Culture. Find the full episode page at: https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/utf-the-hopeychattybits-keisha-howard

Timo Peach meets artists, solarpunks and changemakers re-imagining the stories we think we're in. In this sixth episode, Timo Peach meets the SVP for Sustainability Solutions at Wood, co-Founder of UN SDG Ambition, WEF advisor, co-founder of New Zero World campaign and author of "Science Fiction: A Starship for Enterprise Innovation". You can find the full episode page at: https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/utf-the-hopeychattybits-ann-rosenberg/

In the fifth of this ten-part series, Timo Peach meets a design fiction creative director, creative tech engineer, entrepreneur and founder of the Near Future Laboratory. He aims to help people, groups “explore futures, chart the unexpected and transform opportunities into new and tangible forms”. Find out more at the episode homepage right here: https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/utf-the-hopeychattybits-julian-bleecker/

My guest today is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer and educator, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?” An international lecturer, researcher and creative she is the founder of Warm Data and the Warm Data Lab bringing together a team of international thinkers, scientists and artists to innovate a form of inquiry, which Nora coined “Transcontextual Research” Based on the question: “How we can create a context in which to study the contexts?” From her first book Small Arcs of Larger Circles she has developed a very personal approach to the study of systems and complexity to explore a process she observes as “sym-mathesy” – how living entities evolve when interacting with each other in a shared context of learning. Her work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and informati

Timo Peach meets artists, solarpunks and changemakers re-imagining the stories we think we're in. In the third of this ten-part series, Momo meets the Metamodernist, strategist, cultural historian and social engineer pushing for more radical and imaginative visions to tackle 'wicked' problems. Founder of Holy Handgrenades and co-host of Art Beat she explores playful connections, perspectives, games and art "making the world more soulfully human, shaping next todays better." Find the episode homepage here: https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/unsee-the-future-the-hopeychattybits-meeting-rina-atienza/

Timo Peach meets artists, solarpunks and changemakers re-imagining the stories we think we're in. In the second of this ten-part series, Momo meets the speculative fiction writer and Editor-in-Chief of World Weaver Press. A figure at the heart of solarpunk storytelling, she has assembled some of the most iconic anthologies of the genre, she is also story reviewer for Imagine 2200, searching for "climate fiction for future ancestors. When writers from different backgrounds envision the future, the tales they tell expand our ability to imagine a better world.” Writer of acclaimed shorts like The Spiral Ranch and many other scifi and fantasy narratives, she says “Solarpunk is a world you might actually want to live in – it’s a hopeful future.” And she exorts her writers to: “Be bold, be brave. Write the future you want to bring into existence.” Discover more links and reading and video in the homepage of this post at: https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/utf-the-hopeychattybits-sarena-ulibarri

Timo Peach meets artists, solarpunks and changemakers re-imagining the stories we think we're in. In the first of this ten-part series, Momo meets writer, theorist and strategist currently specialising in the distributed web and world running. Co-founder of solarpunks.net he’s been a central figure in the solarpunk movement for most of it’s existence. He’s also the maker of 301 Permanently Moved podcast and host of Come Internet With Me. “We have access to an abundance of independently created art from all over the world. And yet the kinds of movies being made, and the types of stories that are getting told seem to be totally unoriginal, regurgitated or rebooted.” Find the episode page and video at: https://unseethefuture.com/the-posts/unsee-the-future-the-hopeychattybits-meeting-jay-springett/

The bloke from Momo is back in a UTF special – and is it the one big Hopey-Changey Bit the whole series has been waiting for? In the era of crisis, is Solarpunk an actual new Utopia? Check out the whole post at UnseeTheFuture.com

The bloke from Momo is back with a special episode of his characterful human planet research cast. In a micro series of interviews, Timo Peach talked with changemakers to ask them this question: What do sustainability champions most want now to help make better emotional impact with the possibilities? Find out more and all five Think Blinks over on the article page right here: https://momozo.co/unsee-the-future-think-blinks/ Here he collects all five guests together into a flow of ideas from their front line experiences trying to encourage the more hopeful human level on the everyday planet front line.

As Timo Peach is selected to support TEDx Southampton 2020, in a first little introduction to his talk he asks: How will the pandemic generation interpret – and be remembered for – it's human to human contact? An Unsee The Future Think Blink.

May 21 2020, the bloke from Momo:tempo was invited onto the BBC Radio Solent Dorset breakfast show, to chat with host Steve Harris about Pandemonstrate and its connection to Dorset Mind's Creative Minds campaign.

UNSEE THE FUTURE: HOW TO ENCOURAGE THE MORE HOPEFUL HUMAN TOMORROW. Episode 30: Experience, part 2 The bloke from Momo:tempo, music maker and creative Timo Peach is back – to continue his journey of exploring his creative futurism project with a personal, idiosyncratic podcast and blog, asking: Do you sometimes wish you could unsee the future? Is it time to close our eyes for a moment, and begin the process of trying to come to our senses? In the sudden pandemic era, the whole planet is sharing an experience, and the story we all thought we were in has changed overnight. In this second half of our look at the subject, Mr Peach wonders what the ordinary experience of daily live is already like in ways we're not used to admitting more, and with so many enhanced experiences promised through technology, are the upgrading delivery systems of tech bringing more with them than we have asked enough questions about already. But in the Hopey-Changey Bit, Momo concludes that we have interesting tools to hand already

UNSEE THE FUTURE: HOW TO ENCOURAGE THE MORE HOPEFUL HUMAN TOMORROW. Episode 29: Experience, part 1 The bloke from Momo:tempo, music maker and creative Timo Peach is back – to continue his journey of exploring his creative futurism project with a personal, idiosyncratic podcast and blog, asking: Do you sometimes wish you could unsee the future? Is it time to close our eyes for a moment, and begin the process of trying to come to our senses? In the sudden pandemic era, the whole planet is sharing an experience, and the story we all thought we were in has changed overnight. In this first of two episodes, Mr Peach looks at aspects of a growing desire for "better experiences" in the 21st century and wonders what it is that we're really looking for in daily interactions that we've not been getting enough of – even before all our daily interactions had to so dramatically change. Follow the future and join in at UnseeTheFuture.com