Prototyping Tomorrows: An Immersion Weekend | Hinesight....for Foresight

The University of Houston is offering a brand spanking new IMMERSION WEEKEND! It takes us beyond discussion and transports us into the future.

This weekend workshop, Bringing Futures to Life through Design: Prototyping Possible Tomorrows, is the brainchild of Dr. Adam Cowart. Adam has been an Adjunct Faculty at Houston Foresight. Last year he earned his PhD from Carnegie Mellon’s Transition Design program. This offering reflects our program’s ongoing evolution in what might be called the Activation space, which explores how we can better implement our foresight work with clients. Key tools for activation include design and experiential futures, which help bring the future to life for clients, so they have a fuller more tangible sense of the futures they are creating.

This weekend experience, from January 16-18, 2026, invites participants to turn foresight into form: experimenting, designing, and performing the futures you want to see. Across three creative, high-energy days, you’ll move through seven experiential modules – Think, Experience, Imagine, Story, Perform, Travel, Learn –each designed to shift how you perceive and shape what’s next. Expect deep questioning, playful experimentation, and embodied discovery. This is futures in motion. You’ll leave with new tools, a refreshed mindset, and a sense of agency that carries beyond the weekend.

Program Snapshot

Date: January 16-18, 2026
Cost: $1,500
Led by: Dr. Adam Cowart
Location: Hotel Vesper, 5160 Hidalgo St, Houston, TX 77056
- Discounted room rates available
Sign up here: Immersion Weekend

This immersive follows the January Professional Certificate in Foresight seminar (January 12-16), the perfect next step for those attending (and there’s still room in the certificate seminar, so please pass this email along or register here if someone you know is ready to shape what’s next).

The immersion weekend is open to all current and former students of the UH Foresight graduate program and the Professional Certificate in Foresight seminar.

Space is limited, so claim your spot and start shaping the future.

🔎 Learn more here
📧 Questions? alkoury@central.uh.edu

— Andy Hines

About Andy Hines

Dr. Andy Hines is Program Coordinator at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Foresight, bringing together the experience he earned as an organizational, consulting, and academic futurist. He is also speaking, workshopping, and consulting through his firm Hinesight.

Before that, he was Managing Director of Social Technologies/Innovaro, and served as an Adjunct Professor with the university since 2004. Hines enjoyed earlier careers as a consulting and organizational futurist. He was a partner with Coates & Jarratt, Inc., a think tank and consulting firm that specialized in the study of the future. He was also Futurist & Senior Ideation Leader at Dow Chemical with a mission of using futures tools and knowledge to turn ideas into new business opportunities. Before that, Hines established and ran the Global Trends Program for the Kellogg Company.

Hines is motivated by a professional hunger to make foresight practical and useful, and he believes that foresight can help deliver the insight that is so needed in today’s organizations and the world. His goal, he says, is to infect as many change agents as possible with this message. Thus, he has honed a skill set designed to make foresight more actionable in organizations.

In this pursuit, he has authored five books: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); ConsumerShift: How Changing Values Are Reshaping the Consumer Landscape (No Limits Publishing, 2011); Thinking About the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight (Social Technologies, 2007); 2025: Science and Technology Reshapes US and Global Society (Oak Hill, 1997); and Managing Your Future as an Association (ASAE, 1994) and has another in the hands of publishers: Teaching about the Future: The Basics of Foresight Education. He has also authored dozens of articles, speeches, and workshops, including the 2003 Emerald Literati Awards’ Outstanding Paper accolade for best article published in Foresight for “An Audit for Organizational Futurists” and the 2008 award for “Scenarios: The State of the Art.” He has appeared on several radio and television programs, PBS Houston, KRIV-26 News, and the CBS “Early Show.” He also co-founded and is former Chair of the Association of Professional Futurists.

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