Andy’s Recent Content
Inside the Futurist’s Mind: Drivers: How to Craft Scenarios from Foresight Research
Every strong foresight project starts with clarity — and that begins with the domain map. How do professional futurists actually build the future they describe? Drivers are the building blocks of the future, and this video shows how futurists turn piles of weak signals and trends into the core ingredients of powerful scenario work. In […]
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 Sugar Land, an amazing brand-new, state-of-the-art facility and picked up their swag, featuring t-shirts, stickers, and socks. The weekend kicked off […]
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.
