Stuart Candy

Biography

Stuart Candy is an award-winning designer and educator who narrowly escaped a career in law to become a pioneer of experiential futures practice, augmenting the collective capacity for foresight by any means necessary. Bridging strategy, policy, art, and activism, his work has been exhibited, published, taught, and played internationally, appearing in museums, festivals, universities, and city streets, on the Discovery Channel, and in the pages of The Economist and Wired. He is currently Director of Situation Lab and an Associate Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Candy has helped communities, creatives, and leaders worldwide to articulate and shape their preferred futures, working with aligned organisations including the Omidyar Group, Obama Foundation, United States Conference of Mayors, University of Oxford, UNESCO, IDEO, Arup, Interface, Burning Man, Dubai Museum of the Future, and Cook Inlet Tribal Council. He is a founding member of the Foresight Advisory Board at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Switzerland), as well as a Fellow of the Museum of Tomorrow (Brazil), INK (India), World Futures Studies Federation (France), and The Long Now Foundation (USA).