Jesse Damiani is a writer, curator, and foresight strategist. He is Communications Strategist for Metaculus, a platform fostering forecasts for the public good, and Founder of Postreality Labs, a sensemaking consultancy that helps organizations navigate the polycrisis through resilience, adaptation, creativity, and futures literacies. He writes the best-selling Reality Studies newsletter and hosts the Urgent Futures podcast. Damiani has taught in NYU’s Integrated Design & Media Program, USC’s Media Arts + Practice program, SCI-Arc’s Design Theory & Pedagogy program, and currently teaches “Creativity in Crisis” in UNL’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. Damiani is also Senior Curator and Director of Simulation Literacies at Nxt Museum and an Affiliate of the metaLAB at Harvard and Institute for the Future. His writing appears in Architectural Design, Flash Art, NBC News, WIRED, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Curated exhibitions include SMALL V01CE at Honor Fraser Gallery, Lilypads: Mediating Exponential Systems at Nxt Museum, and PROOF OF ART at Francisco Carolinum Linz. For many years he edited the Best American Experimental Writing anthology (Wesleyan University Press). He has served as Arts and Culture Advisor for Protocol Labs, XR Curator at the Games for Change Festival, and Host of Adobe’s Taking Shape, a hub for 3D art and design. He was also formerly Director of Emerging Technology and Insight at Southern New Hampshire University, where he led the Future of Work initiative.

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