Dear reader, visitor from the future, philosophy enthusiast,
We had a blast. It was fantastic. From 2018 through 2025 we organized more than 60 events, over 40 podcast episodes, and more than 20 reading sessions. People met each other, found careers, deeper understanding, and friendship thanks to this platform that we built together.
Personally, this platform has meant the world to me. It opened so many opportunities, friendships and was a treasure trove of deep conversations and new insights.
Over the years, my own path has led me deeper into research and philosophy than I could have anticipated, and at a certain point, doing justice to both Future Based and those personal endeavors simply became too much to sustain.
This was not an easy conclusion to reach, but it felt like the honest one. That said,- never say never. I remain as passionate about the ideas, the conversations, and the community that Future Based represented as I ever was, and I am always open to collaborations, new adventures, and unexpected reunions.
If you want to continue the conversation, our podcast series is still out there waiting for you, a small archive of curiosity, dialogue, and the kind of thinking we love. Dive in.
Cheers, Sabine
BOOK REVIEWS AND REFLECTIONS BY MARIO VEEN
RIGHTS OF NATURE: time to grow
It is often said that a society is blessed when old people plant trees under whose shade they will never sit. Planting trees is a good start, but I would say a society is blessed when no [...]
PEDAGOGIES OF COLLAPSE: Not the collapse of pedagogy
“I want students to come to my class aware and appraised of the scientific consensus, endowed with intimate knowledge of the plant and animal world, undaunted by the prospect of fixing a broken pipe or upcycling a [...]
HERALD OF A RESTLESS WORLD: Philosopher’s Routine
It’s telling when you have to start a discussion of a philosopher’s biography with *no spoilers!* But such is the case with Emily Herring’s biography of Henri Bergson, HERALD OF A RESTLESS WORLD. “The world Henri Bergson [...]
PODCAST SERIES: BEYOND HUMAN RELATIONS
Plural Perspectives with Erik Peters
Erik Peters (he/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and designer engaging with the worldbuilding potentialities seeded in the act of storytelling, uncovering how speculative fiction can germinate new universes of being. Their research-based and collaborative practice is [...]
About Organisms with Anton Poikolainen Rosén
Dr. Anton Poikolainen Rosén is a Postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture. His research focuses on sustainable futures in Human-Cumputer Interaction and more-than-human design. He works with ethnographic methods, research through design, [...]
Diversity of Being with Jelle van Dijk
Jelle van Dijk is a researcher, teacher, writer, speaker and he draws comics. He is an Assistant Professor in Human Centred Design at the University of Twente, amazed by people, who they are, what they do, and [...]
