This event is part of the School of Education's Bristol Conversations in Education research seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public.

Hosted by: Centre for Higher Education Transformations (CHET)

Speaker: David Staley (The Ohio State University)

Visionary Forethoughts

Visionary thinking about the future is defined as “the skill of imagining things very different from the here and now,” and a visionary is “someone who can envision something radically different” from what other see today. This presentation will include some of these visionary forethoughts: universities enmeshed is a system of strategic capitalism; the transition from university towns into knowledge towns; universities developing a strategic forethought capacity; the epistemological reorganization of the university; and, indeed, the invention of new epistemological forms of the university.

David Staley is an historiographer, writer, designer, futurist, and journalist, and was recently described as an "eclectic academic." He is an Associate Professor in the Departments of History, Design and Educational Studies at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education, the co-author of Knowledge Towns: Colleges and Universities as Talent Magnets and author of Visionary Histories, a collection of futures essays. He is an Honorary Faculty Fellow at the Center for Higher Education Leadership and Innovative Practice (CHELIP) at Bay Path University, and a fellow at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University. In 2022 he was awarded "Best Freelance Writer" by the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists for his "Next" futures column.

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