What would you design for a world that hasn’t happened yet?

Join us for a hands-on Futures Thinking workshop using The Thing From The Future*, a playful speculative design game that challenges us to imagine objects, stories and possibilities from alternative futures.

You’ll play, design, debate and explore some very strange possible worlds, while learning practical ways to think beyond the expected.

No Futures Thinking experience required. Just bring your curiosity.

Presented by Kaleidoscope Club -Thinking seriously about the future doesn’t have to feel serious.

*The Thing From the Future is an award-winning Futures Thinking and speculative design game created by Stuart Candy (OCAD University, Toronto) and Jeff Watson (University of Southern California, Los Angeles).

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About the facilitator: Renata Zimbarg is a Brazilian-born futurist, cultural strategist and facilitator based in Melbourne/Naarm, and a former Monash student herself. She works with Futures Thinking, creativity, and participatory learning, and is the founder of Kaleidoscope Club, a playful initiative that uses games and imagination to help people explore possible futures.

Contact the host of MADASS: Design The Unthinkable 2026