Dr. Abe Hendriks is a researcher and lecturer at the Urban Futures Studio and the Innovation Studies section at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. As a researcher working at the intersection of political science and science and technology studies (STS), he studies how societies collectively imagine and shape desirable futures in the context of the grand challenges of our time, with a particular interest in political theory and philosophy of technology.
Prior to joining Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, he explored these questions in his at the 木瓜福利影视 of Groningen and Ghent 木瓜福利影视, where he studied how the circular economy is imagined as a desirable future in different regions in Sweden in the Netherlands. During this period, he has been a recurring visiting researcher and lecturer at Uppsala 木瓜福利影视, Campus Gotland. After his PhD research, Abe has been conducting research at The Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP), investigating
Currently, he is co-editing with Julius Wesche the I (forthcoming with Cambridge 木瓜福利影视 Press, 2025). At the Urban Futures Studio, he is currently involved in Nederland Verbeeld(t) (the Netherlands Imagines), a research and public engagement project exploring how futuring can help tackle the Netherlands' pressing (spatial) challenges.
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