Stuart Candy
{{Short description|Australian futurist designer}}
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| discipline = Futures, Strategic Foresight, Experiential Futures
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Stuart Candy is an Australian futurist and designer. Candy is a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation, Museum of Tomorrow.{{cite web |last1=Merritt |first1=Elizabeth |title=A Futuryst Look at the Museum of Tomorrow |url=https://www.aam-us.org/2016/11/03/a-futuryst-look-at-the-museum-of-tomorrow/ |website=Center for the Future of Museums Blog |publisher=American Alliance of Museums |access-date=27 February 2022 |date=3 November 2016}} He is the first Research Fellow of The Long Now Foundation.{{cite web |title=People of Long Now |url=https://longnow.org/people/scandy48/ |website=The Long Now Foundation |date=17 June 2021 |access-date=27 February 2022}} His work deals with futurism and designing experiential futures through immersive storytelling.{{cite web |last1=Chugh |first1=Abhinav |title=What is 'futures studies' and how can it help us improve our world? |url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/10/what-is-futures-studies-and-how-can-it-improve-our-world/ |website=World Economic Forum |access-date=23 February 2022 |date=26 October 2021}}{{cite web |title=2021-2022 USC Berggruen Fellows |url=https://dornsife.usc.edu/stpl/usc-berggruen-fellows-2021-2022/ |website=USC Dornsife Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life |access-date=23 February 2022}}
Career
Candy holds degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Melbourne, and an MA and PhD in Political Science and Alternative Futures from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, completed on graduate degree fellowships awarded by the East–West Center.{{cite web |title=Stuart Candy |url=https://slab.ocadu.ca/people/stuart-candy |website=Strategic Innovation Lab |access-date=23 February 2022}} There, he studied under early futurist Jim Dator.{{cite web |last1=Matthews |first1=Philip |title=Imagining Christchurch of the future |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/9275116/Imagining-Christchurch-of-the-future |website=Stuff |access-date=24 February 2022 |date=13 October 2013}}
Candy was the first Fellow of the Long Now Foundation in San Francisco{{cite web |last1=Moore |first1=Timothy |title=Stuart Candy: The corroboration |url=https://architectureau.com/articles/the-corroboration-stuart-candy/ |website=Architecture AU |access-date=23 February 2022 |date=18 February 2013}} and the first artist in residence with the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro. He is a founding advisor and contributor to the initiative to embed futures throughout the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}
Futurism Design and Advocacy
In 2010, Candy and Jake Dunagan, director of the Governance Futures Lab at Institute for the Future, created Our Plastic Century at the California Academy of Sciences, a display of four large water coolers with representations of plastic pollution from the years 1910, 1960, 2010, and 2030.
At the first Emerge in 2012, an annual futurist event at Arizona State University, Candy and Duagan ran Found futures: the people who vanished, a "design fiction playshop" to collaboratively create "a design fiction artifact" reconceptualizing life in Phoenix, Arizona.{{cite book |last1=Bihanic |first1=David |title=Empowering Users through Design: Interdisciplinary Studies and Combined Approaches for Technological Products and Services |date=12 January 2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-13017-0 |page=74}}
In 2014, Candy and Jeff Watson, as the Situation Lab, published the card game The Thing from the Future. The game prompts 2-6 players to use a deck of 108 cards to come up with "entertaining and thought-provoking descriptions" or hypothetical objects from the near, medium, and long-term future.{{cite web |title=The Thing from the Future (2014) |url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/167330/thing-future |website=Board Game Geek |access-date=23 February 2022}} Players come up with "things from the future" (headlines, posters, games, monuments etc.) related to a scenario about a topic, a state, a time period, and a mood derived from the cards, allowing the players to develop their own future scenarios, which they then assess and discuss.{{cite web |last1=Shah |first1=Rawn |title=Playing The Futurist's Game |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/rawnshah/2015/06/03/playing-the-futurists-game/?sh=52b5b23b5294 |website=Forbes |access-date=27 February 2022 |date=3 June 2015}} In 2018, Candy and Dunagan ran the game for a group of city mayors as part of SXSW.{{cite web |last1=Eidam |first1=Eyragon |title=SXSW 2018: The Year of the Mayor as a Futurist? |url=https://www.govtech.com/civic/sxsw-2018--the-year-of-the-mayor-as-a-futurist.html |website=Government Technology |access-date=23 February 2022 |date=12 March 2018}}
In 2017, Candy created the "NurturePod", a hypothetical near-future technology product that automates raising a baby. It featured a model of a baby wearing a small VR visor, sitting in an egg-shaped booster seat.{{cite web |last1=Furness |first1=Dyllan |title=Here's a Baby VR Headset for the Parents of the Future |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/baby-vr-headset-future-parents-stuart-candy/ |website=Motherboard |publisher=Vice |access-date=23 February 2022 |date=1 August 2017}} The NurturePod was displayed at M HKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, Belgium.{{cite web |last1=Frauenfelder |first1=Mark |title=NurturePod: the future of parenting |url=https://boingboing.net/2017/08/09/nurturepod-the-future-of-pare.html |website=BoingBoing |access-date=23 February 2022 |date=9 August 2017}}
Book
In 2019, Candy and Cher Potter published Design and Futures, a collection of 30 essays and pieces of writing documenting design futures discourse.{{cite magazine |last1=Sterling |first1=Bruce |title=Design And Futures by Stuart Candy and Cher Potter |url=https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2019/12/design-futures-stuart-candy-cher-potter/ |magazine=Wired |access-date=27 February 2022 |date=30 December 2019}} The collection originally appeared in issues of the Journal of Futures Studies and includes pieces by Minority Report production designer Alex McDowell, Museum of Modern Art curator Paola Antonelli, author of Hyperobjects Timothy Morton, and other futurists and artists.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}
Awards
- Most Significant Futures Work Award (2017) for Designing an Experiential Scenario: The People Who Vanished from The Association of Professional Futurists{{cite web |title=2017 MOST SIGNIFICANT FUTURES WORKS (MFSW) AWARDS |url=https://www.apf.org/page/PastWinners |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605192901/https://www.apf.org/page/PastWinners |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 5, 2019 |website=Association of Professional Futurists |access-date=24 February 2022 }}
- Most Significant Futures Work Award (2015) for the card game The Thing From the Future from The Association of Professional Futurists
- Official Selection 2014, IndieCade International Festival of Independent Games for the card game The Thing From The Future{{cite web |title=About The Thing From the Future |url=http://www.indiecade.com/games/selected/the-thing-from-the-future |website=IndieCade |access-date=24 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106063832/http://www.indiecade.com/games/selected/the-thing-from-the-future |archive-date=6 January 2018}}
- Norman Meller Award (2009) for his academic achievements as a recent graduate, awarded by the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa{{cite web |title=Awards & Scholarships |url=http://www.politicalscience.hawaii.edu/graduate/funding/awards.html |website=University of Hawaii Manoa |access-date=24 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180419121913/http://www.politicalscience.hawaii.edu/graduate/funding/awards.html |archive-date=19 April 2018}}
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