Jocelyn Ibarra

Joss is the founder, showrunner, and design lead of The Time Travel Agency, a speculative design and innovation studio in the Nordics, the Americas, and online. Our studio is a response to hopelessness about the future. We aim to reach futures in which people possess agency and feel happy to be alive. For organizations that need to survive, we help them to adapt. We aim to challenge, invent, and transform. Our specialization is in combining immersive experiments, world-building, prototyping, participatory experiences, and emerging tech. We offer methods for handling change, and to experience the mechanisms of uncertainty, prototyping, and collaboration. A time travel is an imaginative and playful innovation process that introduces people to new scenarios in which to practice their Futures Literacy (FL) skill before they jump into action plans. We challenge a lack of optimistic futures, of vision, of other worlds. Then, we make those worlds to feel what it’s like to affect them. (And work from the assumption that we are going to make it). We enjoy designing for participatory experiences where to find possible, optimistic futures in safe, explorative, and experimental spaces.