The Future Issue ❹ ↓

With this issue of Peeps, we bring you the work of researchers and visionaries who guide us forward by looking back. 2020 is off to a challenging start, but the hope lies in the lessons we learn... Editorial

Afrofuturism Answers Back to Afro-pessimism

Stories to Build a World By

Innovating for a Sustainable Future

What to do with the Present

Un-Settling the City

Feature

4 Peeps Play List

The playlist, for Issue 4, kicked off by our editorial team but to be expanded by our readers/listeners, is here!

Feature

4 Peeps Reading List

Peeps editor Cat Ashton kicks off our reading list with a bevy of speculative fictions about the future.

Podcast

4 Peeps Media List

Peeps’ inaugural media list, curated and kicked-off by our editor Ife Olatunji, focuses on afrofuturism in its many forms.

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Archives

Forum Practice

Bricolage in a Can

The story of one research team’s journey into the brand culture of alcoholic energy drinks.

World Affairs

Stories to Build a World By

Measurement of the success of international interventions in vulnerable places using standardized statistics across communities has proven disastrous to many international development and humanitarian aid efforts. Dr. Millar makes a case for using insights from the stories of the communities affected to determine the success, failure, or even whether the proposed measures would help would increase effectiveness of the measures and improve results.

Curation

Colombia’s National Strikes: A Primer

The New Humanitarian / 09.25.2020

A look at what’s behind the National Strikes in Colombia. (photo from Peeps Issue 6)