Alongside its members, the network welcomes guest contributors: renowned scholars who enrich its meetings and its debates. Together, they form a community committed not only to advancing future-making research, but to supporting one another in doing so. Explore their profiles below to discover who they are, where they work, and what they study.
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Network Members
Alex Christian
Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution
Technical University of Munich
Country
Germany
I study, largely ethnographically, the micro-level practices through which the not-yet is pitched, negotiated, demonstrated, and evaluated in entrepreneurship and innovation. Theoretically, I combine practice theories and the sociology of expectations to examine how future-making practices interact with wider expectational dynamics.
Research Interests
Future-making, Hype, Practice Theories, Ethnography
Connection to Future-making
Annemarie Dedden
PhD candidate
Research Interests
Institution
Affect, Processes, Communication, Strategizing, Technology
University of Twente
Country
Connection to Future-making
Netherland
I am interested in how affective and communicative processes bring about our future technologies and with it future socio-material worlds. What role do we give to nature and ecology in how we talk technological innovations into being? And how does one perform communicative resistance to the silencing and denying of our inseperability and entanglement to other, human and non-human, in future-making?
Clara Scheve
Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution
Hamburg University of Technology
Country
Germany
Research Interests
Organization Theory, Grand Challenges, Sustainability, Temporality
Connection to Future-making
In organizational future-making, I'm interested in how organizations open up and structure possible futures when confronting grand challenges.
Francesca Zoccarato
Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Country
Italy
Research Interests
Foresight, Future-making, Circular innovation, Practice perspective
Connection to Future-making
My research examines how organizations anticipate change and create desirable futures through foresight as a future-making practice.
Ines Kuric
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interests
Institution
Future-making, Institutional Strategies, Strategic Communication, Multimodality, Urban Futures
UNSW Sydney
Country
Connection to Future-making
Australia
I adopt a communicative perspective on future-making, focusing on how verbal, visual, and multimodal means of communication shape the strategic projection of collective futures and contribute to broader social change.
Iris Seidemann
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interests
Institution
Paradoxes and Temporal Tensions, Grand Challenges, Crisis, Practice- and Process Lens
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
My research explores the emergence and navigation of paradoxes in times of crisis and uncertainty, examining how future-making practices shape organizing across past, present, and possible futures.
Connection to Future-making
Germany
Country
Lillan Lommel
PhD Candidate
Research Interests
Institution
Affect, In/exclusion, Boundaries, New and alternative forms of organizing
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Country
Connection to Future-making
Germany
I am interested in understanding how new and alternative forms of organizing – as sites of future-making – are accomplished and what kinds of futures they produce.
Lorenzo Skade
Assistant Professor
Institution
European University Viadrina
Country
Germany
Research Interests
Time and temporality, Practice and process theory, Strategy-as-practice, Innovation management
Connection to Future-making
I study how organizations imagine, construct, and enact futures, with a focus on strategy, innovation, and future-making practices.
Luigi Mosca
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research Interests
Institution
Organization Theory, Strategic Management, Pragmatist Philosophy, Future-making, Megaprojects
Imperial College Business School
Country
Connection to Future-making
United Kingdom
I theorize future-making as an emancipatory, inquiry-based process through which actors collectively imagine, negotiate, and shape more desirable futures. My research explores how megaprojects make futures and how future-making emerges.
Manuela Gomez-Valencia
PhD Candidate
Research Interests
Sustainable and Regenerative Futures, Future-Making, Multi-Stakeholder Governance, Agri-Food Value Chains, Rural Development and Territorial Regeneration, Latin American Business
Institution
Country
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Germany
Connection to Future-making
I study how diverse actors in agri-food value chains coordinate future-making practices, with a focus on transitions towards socio-ecological regeneration.
Matthias Wenzel
Professor
Research Interests
Institution
Practice-Based Organizing, Strategizing, Future-Making, Paradoxes, Strategy as Practice
Country
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Germany
Connection to Future-making
I have championed the practice perspective on future-making, and have contributed to further elaborating the communicative perspective.
Pauline C. Reinecke
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Strategic Entrepreneurship, Institutional Change, Contested Technologies, Ecological Issues, Social Inequality
Institution
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Country
Connection to Future-making
Germany
I examine how actors initiate institutional change and shape new futures, drawing on a practice perspective to study how future-making unfolds through strategic and institutional processes.
Silvia Sanasi
Associate Professor
Research Interests
Future-making, Strategizing under constraint, Entrepreneurial strategizing, Design in strategizing, Process research
Institution
University of Bergamo
Country
Connection to Future-making
Italy
My research explores how organizations strategize in and with time, including how they interpret and manage tensions between past and future, and the discursive aspects of future-making.
Simone Robitschko
Research Associate
Research Interests
Futures, Individual foresight, Behavioral foresight, Foresight as a dynamic capability, Managerial decision-making
Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt - Bavarian Foresight Institute
Institution
Country
Connection to Future-making
Germany
By adopting an individual capability lens, I focus on foresight as a microfoundation for how economic actors first anticipate and then actively produce the yet-to-come.
Simone Schiller-Merkens
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interests
Institution
Prefigurative Organizing, Moral Markets, Social Movements, Future Imaginaries, Institutional Change
Witten/Herdecke University
Country
Connection to Future-making
Germany
I study how imaginaries of the future are enacted through prefigurative and alternative forms of organizing, examining how actors create and give viability to alternative economic futures in their everyday practices.
Guest contributors
Alejandra Bazoberry
PhD Candidate
Institution
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Country
Germany
Research Interests
Organizational Strategy, Future Making, Political Dynamics, Digital Sustainability Innovation
Connection to Future-making
My research is focused on the dynamics of how organizations imagine, develop and implement sustainable futures through digitalization and innovation.
Annika Lübben
PhD Researcher
Institution
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Country
Germany
Research Interests
Future-making, Future Skills & KI, Digital Cultures, Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship
Connection to Future-making
I study how discourses around digitization, digital change, and digital cultures evoke and shape specific understandings of the future.
Clarissa Schott
PhD Candidate
Institution
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Country
Germany
Research Interests
Future-making, Ethics, Accounting, Climate change
Connection to Future-making
Future-making has become an integral part of my research. I am particularly interested in the responsibility organiaztions carry in valuing and enacting distant climate futures through calculative practices.
Farnaz Fatemeh Ghayeghi Hassani
PhD Candidate
Institution
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Country
Germany
Research Interests
AI and Creativity
Connection to Future-making
In my PhD, I explore how generative AI changes creative work and how people and organizations create, imagine, and shape possible futures together.
Jochen Koch
Professor
Institution
European University Viadrina
Germany
Germany
Research Interests
Processes, Practices, Paths, Evolution, Creativity
Connection to Future-making
I take a temporal perspective on the inscription, sedimentation and patterning of and on the social, the technological, the economic and the aesthetic — and thus on how futures open and close.
Leonie Eising-Mertsch
Research associate
Institution
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Country
Germany
Research Interests
Entrepreneurship for sustainability, Systems perspectives, Change towards sustainability
Connection to Future-making
Exploring citizen entrepreneurship as collective social capital for future-making and developing methods that bridge divided viewpoints in contested contexts
Lilith Diringer
PhD Candidate
Research Interests
Institution
Uncertainty, High-risk, Collective leadership, Organization, Resilience
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Country
Connection to Future-making
Germany
My connection to future-making is twofold: How do we plan, in the very moment of a high-risk, low-time situation, what to do next, and how do we prepare in the long term to become more resilient and react adequately to emerging high-risk situations in an uncertain future?
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Neil Thompson
Associate Professor
Institution
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Country
The Netherlands
Research Interests
Entrepreneurship, Practice theory, Future-making, Imagination, Sustainability
Connection to Future-making
I have drawn on this concept to understand entrepreneurship in the past, and feel there is more to do with this connection.
Sarah Stanske
Researcher
Research Interests
Affiliation
Strategic entrepreneurship, Time and temporality, Crisis, Disruption, Qualitative research
University of Bremen
Country
Connection to Future-making
Germany
Using qualitative research, I study how actors jointly enact futures as they engage with both fearful and hopeful imaginaries. Thereby, I am particularly interested in understanding entrepreneurship as a tool for responding to potential disruptions and building better futures.
Silvia Gherardi
Emerita
Research Interests
Institution
Practice Theory; Feminist Theory; Posthumanism; Organizational Becoming; Temporality
Universita' di Trento
Country
Connection to Future-making
Italy
I am interested in joining a conversation on responsibility, response-ability and responsible futures. Since my background is shaped by posthumanist practice theory, I would like to explore future-making in relation to the organizational practices enacting future and to philosophical approaches to temporality.
Verena Meyer
Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution
Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Country
Germany
Research Interests
Future-making, Entrepreneurship, Societal transformation, Rural development, Diversity
Connection to Future-making
I explore the connection of future-making and entrepreneurship and how this can drive societal transformation, particularly in rural development and from an interdisciplinary and intersectional perspective.