Andy’s Recent Content
A Reciprocal Gift Economy: The Serviceberry
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer, is a popular and delightful book that promotes the idea of a reciprocal gift economy. I included the Gift Economy concept as part of the Circular Commons image in Imagining After Capitalism. [I used Charles Eisenstein’s Sacred Gift economy in the book.] […]
Houston Foresight “Transformation” @ Spring Gathering 2026
About a hundred students, alumni, and friends of the University of Houston Foresight program gathered for this year’s event on all things Transformation on April 10-11. Participants were welcomed to our new home in Sugarland, an amazing brand-new, state-of-the-art facility and picked up their swag, featuring t-shirts, stickers, and socks. The weekend kicked off on […]
Why Guiding Images Are So Important to the Future
We have been trained to be bottom-line focused, can-do, action-oriented, to get on with it, and so on. Even in our Houston Foresight program, we taught a whole summer course on Activation last year focused on how get foresight work acted upon. And we have a draft book manuscript on the topic. BUT, like most […]
ABOUT ANDY HINES
Dr. Andy Hines is Associate Professor and Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.
