Sensing the future
What might be changing?
Noticing signals, patterns, risks, opportunities or bodily sensations before they form a complete picture.
Early 2025
Making future scenarios visible
The journey began with AI-generated foresight films exploring collective intelligence, scenario planning and decentralised education. Instead of describing possible futures in reports, I turned them into cinematic experiences.
What changes when we experience a possible future instead of only analysing it?
One of the films, Exploring Futures: Scenario Planning in Collective Consciousness, was later screened five times at the international Cartoons About the Future Festival in Moscow.
May 2025 · Vienna
The first Resonant Future Self pilot
The question then became personal: could someone experience several possible versions of their own future and recognise which one carried meaning for them?
This led to the Resonant Future Self Framework, combining deep self-inquiry, six personalised future narratives, AI-generated films, immersive viewing and physiological observation. The framework and the results of its first single-participant pilot were presented publicly for the first time at the Futures4Europe Conference in Vienna.
June 2025 · Bucharest
Connecting the work to collective emotion ecosystems
I was invited to participate in Emotion Ecosystems 2040, a two-day foresight workshop at Conacul Cozieni near Bucharest. Hosted by UEFISCDI within the EU-funded Eye of Europe project, the workshop explored how emotional currents, technologies and social tensions may shape individuals and collectives by 2040.
It placed the emerging work on felt futures inside a wider question: how are emotions produced, amplified and transformed across communities, institutions and technological systems?
View Emotion Ecosystems 2040July 2025 · Venice
From experiment to peer-reviewed framework
The individual framework was presented at AIMEDIA 2025, the First International Conference on AI-based Media Innovation. The resulting paper, written with Normen Schack, formalised the connection between strategic foresight, immersive storytelling, AI, experiential learning and biofeedback.
Read the peer-reviewed paperLate 2025
Testing the approach in new contexts
Elements of the approach were adapted for children and young people through Die Kiste von Morgen in Hannover and Dora & the City That Feels in Bratislava. The Bratislava experience was delivered with YouthWatch as part of an EU- and Erasmus+-funded workshop. These experiments explored how stories, characters and immersive media could help different groups connect emotionally with futures that might otherwise remain abstract.
July 2026 · Nice
From individual resonance to collective experience
The next question was no longer only: which future resonates with one person? It became: what happens when several people enter the same future, but feel and interpret it differently?
This led to Felt Futures: An Experiment in Sensing 2032, the first group adaptation of the Resonant Future Self Framework. Five participants developed personalised experiences of a shared future horizon. Their films were then experienced and discussed within a larger group of researchers at AIMEDIA 2026 in Nice.
September 2026 · Rome
Recognising the future in the room
At Futures4Europe 2026 in Rome, the next version will expand the Nice pilot into a wider participatory process. Pre-conference contributions, personalised films, an immersive installation and facilitated group reflection will be brought together to explore what different emotional responses can reveal about a shared possible future.
AI foresight filmsFrom reading a future to seeing it
Resonant Future Self FrameworkFrom seeing a future to feeling yourself within it
Group adaptationFrom individual resonance to collective insight
Emotional Foresight grew from a simple but persistent question: what does a possible future evoke in us now, while we still have time to question it, choose differently and change what comes next?