Futures of Europe

  • Simone Ashby

    is an Assistant Professor in New Media Design in the Department of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University. Her research focuses on participatory methods, speculative design, and leveraging collective intelligence to help people become more connected and empowered in their communities.

  • Sjuul Bos

    is a Researcher in the Department of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University. Her research focuses on speculative and critical design with participatory methods including non-user stakeholders. Her work often relates to ethics, sustainability and collaborative reflection.

  • Julian Hanna

    is an Associate Professor in Culture Studies at Tilburg University. His research focuses on critical intersections between culture, politics, and technology. His latest books are The Manifesto Handbook: 95 Theses on an Incendiary Form (Zero Books, 2020) and Island (Bloomsbury, 2024).

  • Schuyler Laparle

    is a Lecturer in Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University. Trained as a cognitive linguist, she is interested in how language constructs and constrains our relationships with the world, and how collaborative meaning-making practices can help to foster new life-affirming human-world relations.

Past contributors

  • Michelle Kasprzak

  • Alwin de Rooij