On March 2015, I started a project called Tuhaf Gelecek (The Weird Future in Turkish) to have an outlet to work on my recently developing interest in futures and foresight. Since then, I published newsletters, podcasts and articles as a part of this experiment. The goal was to develop my approach to futuring.

But a lot happened in those ten years, and continues to happen. We started at the new normal and ended up in the polycrisis. Even though I wasn’t doing futures and foresight work in a professional sense, every other work I did was shaped by my developing understanding of futures. At the same time, I was keep noticing our need for futures (not in the sense of “keynote futurists” but in a way that helps people to gain agency in their futures) increasing more and more because of the things are going all around the world.

Now I’m ready to take the work I started with Tuhaf Gelecek to the next level. Even though I started working on this in the background since 2024, I’m finally ready to announce Tuhaf Studio: my own independent futures and foresight studio is open to business.

If you want to get a sense of the Tuhaf Studio’s approach to the futures, I can summarize it with two sentences.

Tuhaf Studio approaches the future as something we create and not something that happens to us. Meaning, my work won’t be about taking a passive position about the futures but instead focus on helping you to gain agency on your futures and understand how you can create better ones. Bruce Sterling says, “The future is a verb, not a noun.” And this is the mantra of Tuhaf Studio.

Tuhaf Studio also doesn’t limit its futures and foresight work with the hype and the mainstream trends. I’ll always look for the edge cases, weird signals and never limit my work with certain geographies. Because I believe this way of thinking is one of the main reasons of the problems we face today.

If you’re looking for someone to help you make sense of what’s next, want to learn how to approach the futures as something you create, need someone to consult about not just the usual trends and signals but also the weird ones, Tuhaf Studio is here to help.

TLDR: Tuhaf Studio is ready to work and if you want to work with me or looking for a collaborator, just get in touch and we’ll see how we can work together.

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