Johanna Hoffmann

Johanna Hoffman is an urbanist working in the space between design, planning, fiction, and futures. She specializes in using speculative futures tools to enhance collaborative capacities in urban planning and policy development. She is a founder of the research and action institute Design for Adaptation and holds an MLA in landscape architecture and environmental planning from UC Berkeley. Her first book, Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Cities We Need, was published in 2022. Her current doctoral research, pursued at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, explores spatial visualization tactics to support collaborative, complex decision-making regarding adaptive urban futures.