Cynthia selin
Professor, Foresight Expert, Strategy Consultant
Professor, Foresight Expert, Strategy Consultant
About
Dr. Cynthia Selin is a future-oriented scholar and consultant focused on sustainability and the governance of emerging technologies. By creating new methods and concepts for confronting uncertainties, her work stimulates improved strategic capacities and foresight.
RESEARCH
Dr. Selin explores six overlapping themes.
Governing Emerging Technologies
Inventing and investigating new methods to care for the political, social, and ethical implications of new technologies
Sustainable Futures
Helping to create more just energy transitions and better urban adaptations to navigate our climate and ecological crises
Democratizing Innovation
Developing new modalities of public and stakeholder deliberation to diversify and improve the inputs to decision-making
Scenario Planning
Designing strategies to sense and prepare for change, enabling people and organizations to question assumptions, broaden perspectives, and build greater resilience
Climate Art and Science
Curating experiences and inquiries to enable more creative, evocative, collaborative, and useful practices of anticipation of our changing climate
Alternative Imaginations
Exploring how transdisciplinary spaces can encourage more eclectic and deeper understandings of living well with uncertain socio-technical systems
consulting
Strategic Foresight Consulting
Dr. Selin works extensively with scenarios and strategy across an array of organizations including large companies, laboratories, cities, museums, utilities, non-profits, and multi-stakeholder groups.
WRITING
Dr. Selin's award-winning writing on futures, governance, and sustainability has appeared in esteemed academic journals and in works by major publishers.
TEACHING
Dr. Selin teaches at Arizona State University and the University of Oxford. She also provides executive training and customized educational opportunities for organizations.
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
School for the Future of Innovation in Society | School of Sustainability
As an Associate Professor in the College of Global Futures, Dr. Selin mentors students and offers courses such as Prototyping Futures, The Politics & Ethics of Smart Cities, and Futures Thinking & Strategy.
Media and Immersive Experience Center
Dr. Selin is the co-founder of the Master's program in Futures and Design that combines future-focused theories and practices, including speculative design, science fiction, and foresight studies to investigate and craft alternative futures.
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Said Business School
Since 2013, Dr. Selin is an Associate Fellow at the Univesity of Oxford where she teaches in the Oxford Scenarios Programme, offers executive education, hosts events like the Oxford Futures Forum, and conducts research into scenario planning and strategy.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Customized Learning for Organizations
Dr. Selin designs immersive and digital learning experiences enabling people and organizations to prepare for unpredictable futures and better navigate change. Dr. Selin's priority focus is on building capacities in strategy, foresightful action, and better decision making.
Education
Dr. Selin's interdisciplinary educational background focused on science, technology, society, and futures.
Copenhagen Business School
Copenhagen, Denmark
Institute for Politics, Philosophy and Management
PhD Knowledge and Management
Dissertation: Volatile Visions: Transactions in Anticipatory Knowledge, 2006
Roskilde University | Roskilde, Denmark
Maastricht University | Maastricht, Netherlands
MA Science and Technology Studies
Thesis: Professional Dreamers: The Art and Science of Scenario Planning, 2000
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
BA American Studies
Honors thesis: The Promise and Peril of Nanotechnology, 1996
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