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Stuart Candy (Australian:[kaendi] ; born 1980) is an Australian futurist and designer, born in 1980 in Adelaide. He graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and received a Ph.D. in political science. He is currently serving on the Foresight Expert Advisory Group for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Creasent Societies in Geneva.

Contents
 * 1) Profile
 * 2) Career
 * 3) Philosophy and projects related

Profile

Originally from Australia, Stuart Candy holds and a double degree in Arts and Law from the University of Melbourne. After his studies in Melbourne, he moved to Honolulu where he studied in the Futures Studies Program under the guidance of professor Jim Dator at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He received his Ph.D. in political science for work on experiential scenarios, an approach to immersive storytelling at the intersection of futures, transmedia design and politics. Stuart Candy is associate director at the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also a tenure-track faculty member of the world's first foresight and design program, at OCAD University in Toronto. As a professor, his work aim to bringing the foresight and design fields together and at spreading a creative thinking mindset to his students. Stuart Candy is also a researcher at the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies.

Career

With a background including Arts and Law, Stuart Candy has lead the development of new thinking and methodology in foresight, and has brought them to organisations, companies, students and audiences around the world.

Stuart Candy has worked as a facilitator and advisor for several public organizations such as UNESCO, the Long Now Foundation (USA), the UK Design Council, the Sydney Opera House, the Singularity University Global Summit, Dubai's Museum of the Future, the National Film Board of Canada, the Museum of Tomorrow (Brazil). He currently serves the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Creasent Societies in Geneva, where he helped the organisation use experiential and guerrilla futures approaches, at its biennial Statutory Meetings held in Antalya, Turkey, in November 2017.

He also worked for private companies that he describe as "one of the few places in the world where one can really work at the intersection of foresight and design on issues and projects at quite larger scale." Private clients and partners includes IDEO, Boston Consulting Group, Burning Man Festival among others. When Candy was writing his Ph.D. dissertation about foresight/design intersection, he became regional foresight and innovation leader for the global design and engineering firm Arup. Stuart's involvement is often sought in unusual projects intersecting strategy and cultural change.

Philosophy and projects related

Candy's work is distinguishable from others futurists by including design as a tool to experimenting and thinking the future. As an experiential futurist, Candy considers physical artifacts as the best way for people to experiment the future rather than offer readers a though experiment via text.

In 2017, Stuart's Candy Project NurturePod, was on display at the Museum of Contempory Art of Antwerp : The artwork featured a baby in a simulated environment, strapped to a seat, wearing futuristic googles.

Candy is also co-creator of a brainstorming game called The Thing From The Future, and columnist of The Sceptical Futuryst blog.