As a new year begins, we take a moment to look toward the future.

This episode features two conversations that explore how imagining what comes next shapes the places we live. Futurist JT Mudge joins us to talk about how foresight helps us think beyond binaries and prepare for change, while Seattle-based historian Feliks Banel reflects on the 1962 Century 21 Exposition and how visions of the future helped shape the Seattle we know today.

Together, these conversations consider how the futures we imagine grow out of the moments we’re living in—and how those imagined futures can leave lasting marks on our cities.