MsClaire Marshall

As a transdisciplinary researcher, educator, artist and experience designer Claire explores how experiences and narratives can impact how we perceive the future, and how the field of experiential futures can empower people to imagine regenerative futures to take action on climate change. Claire has both teaching and practical experience in art, storytelling, futures studies, innovative social research methods, public engagement, environmental humanities and transdisciplinary. Claire currently teaches across a range of transdisciplinary subjects including subjects on envisioning futures, creative methods and the past, present and future of innovation. Her award-winning creative work - The Museum of Futures - has been nationally internationally exhibited in various forms, and received funding from the Arts Council of Australia. At the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) she was instrumental in the creation of the xFutures Lab in 2018. The lab is a transdisciplinary project that consolidates futures-oriented research, teaching, and creative practices to develop new models of socially responsible innovation and value sensitive design of emerging technologies. In 2021 together with the xFutures Lab team, Claire won 2021 Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching and Learning Award.

Prior to joining UTS Claire had an award-winning career in the film and television industry. In 2014 she won one of television's highest awards the MIP TV International Format award. Maintaining her ties to the television industry she regularly writes for television, and has received funding from Screen Rights to develop the Impact Teams Lab program, bringing together Academics, Storytellers and people with lived experience to create impact in the areas of climate action and diversity and inclusion. She is a passionate advocate for climate action and has regularly worked with WWF Australia hosting and curating the Greenhouse Sessions event series and podcast.

She is currently undertaking doctoral research in the field of experiential futures, building on her practice as an experience designer. She is supervised by Dr Susanne Pratt (TD School) and Professor Chris Riedy (Institute of Sustainable Futures). Her doctoral research looks at how our brains think about the future. How we can counter the dominant narratives and empower people to imagine and create regenerative futures. Our imagined futures shape our decisions, and our decisions shape our futures.