A Conversation with Dr. Lonny J Avi Brooks about Designing the Afrofuture
Description
Dr. Lonny J. Avi Brooks is an associate professor in communication at California State University, East Bay. As the Co-Principal Investigator for the Long Term and Futures Thinking in Education Project, he has piloted the integration of futures thinking into the communication curriculum. As a leading voice in Afrofuturism, Brooks contributes prolifically to the field through diverse mediums, including numerous journals, book chapters, conferences, exhibitions, and festivals in the United States and worldwide. He is a co-creator alongside Ahmed Best and Jade Fabello of Afrorithm Futures Group, an afrofuturist story collective and consultancy that creates tools to empower corporations, educational institutions, and individuals to imagine new, more equitable, and inclusive visions of the future.
In this conversation, we talk about his views on Afrofuturism as a community practice, especially in light of his research on foresight and developing tools to create new future visions. Dr. Brooks is one of the featured interviews in Afrofantastic: The Transformative World of Afrofuturism, a new documentary available at pbs.org.
United States
