2022 Enhancing civic engagement in scenario-based urban planning with experiential futures. Anticipation 22. Phoenix, AZ.
2022 Worldbuilding and Civic Co-Production. EcoCity 2022. Oslo, Norway
2021 Using Worldbuilding to Create More Participatory Urban Futures. EDRA. Detriot, MI
2020 Climate Stories: Prototyping Participation through Speculative Futures. Design Science Studio. San Francisco, CA
2020 Speculative Futures and You. Climate Designers Lecture, CCA. San Francisco, CA
2020 What We Talk About When We Talk About The Future. Resilience Seminar. UC Berkeley
2019 Speculative Futures and Urban Planning: Imbuing more Imagination in the Development Process. Neon Re@act Conference. Dundee, Scotland
2019 Making the Future Personal. Creative Placemaking Concernece. LA, CA
2018 Climate Stories: Community Planning for Climate Change. HUB Conference and Climate Colab at MIT. Boston, MA
2017 Waterspots: Watering Holes for the 21st Century. MIT Solve Conference. New York, NY
2016 Future of San Francisco Housing. SF AIA. San Francisco, CA
2016 San Mateo Shore-Up: Using Wetlands to Design Resilient Infrastructure as Public Space, Restore America’s Estuaries Summit. New Orleans, LA
2014 Towards a Living Ground: Exploring water-based urban design in a warming future, Environmental Design and Research Association Conference. New Orleans, LA
The City Above & the City Below: designing outreach opportunities for public water infrastructure, Good Design Conference, AIA SF, CA
2011 Coastal Re-vision: digital engagement strategies for sea level rise planning, A Better World by Design Conference, RISD and Brown University, Providence, RI
Installations
2022 What Could Be, Verge Conference, San Jose, CA
2022 Tools for a Warming Planet, Group Exhibition, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
2020 Climate Stories, Design Science Studio Summit, San Francisco, CA
2019 Tell Me More, San Francsico Design Week, San Francisco, CA
2018 The Truth is Somewhere in the Middle, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2017 Waterspots, Berkeley Marina, Berkeley, CA
2016 Invisible Dialogues: Reception for Natural Disasters, Group Exhibition, ELL Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Sea Level Stories, Market Street Prototyping Festival, San Francisco, CA
2015 The Past is Prologue, 100 Years – Panama Pacific International Exposition: 1915 -- 2015, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2014 City Highlight, Good Design, SF AIA, San Francisco, CA
2014 Towards a Living Ground, UC Berkeley Design Thesis Showcase, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Awards & Honors
2021-2012 Berggruen Fellow, USC, Los Angeles, CA
2020-2021 Artist in Residence, Buckminster Fuller Institute, San Francisco, CA
2020 Fellowship, European Futures Observatory, London, UK
2018 Grand Prize Winner MIT Climate Colab, Boston, MA
2017 Fellow, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2017 Finalist, SOLVE Sustainable Urban Communities Challenge, NYC, NY
2017 Finalist, MIT Anticipating Climate Hazards Competition, Boston, MA
2016 Fellow, Market Street Prototyping Festival, San Francisco, CA
2014 Fellow, Good Design, San Francisco, CA
2014 ASLA Student Merit Award, NCC Chapter, San Francisco, CA
Fellow, Farrand Fund Fellowship, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2013 ASLA Student Communication Award, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2013 Fellow, Bansner Fellowship, Berkeley, CA
2013 Portuguese Studies Prize, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2012 UC Berkeley Continuing Grant, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2011 UC Berkeley University Grant, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
2011 Finalist, Design for a Better World, RISD and Brown University, Providence, RI
Publications
Speculative Futures. Penguin Random House. 2022.
“What If the Best Times Are Still to Come?” The Long Now Foundation. 2022.
“Towards Civic Co-Production: Using Worldbuilding to Go Beyond Participation in Urban Planning and Enact More Equitable Cities.” Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 96. 2022.
“Mythmaking for Burning Ground.” The Long Now Foundation. 2022.
“Futures from Ruins.” Noema. 2022.
"Creating Post-Pandemic Cities with Speculative Futures." City Monitor. 2021.
"Overlooking Risk Is No Longer an Option." Smart Cities Dive. 2017.
"Incremental Development." World Landscape Architecture. 2015.
"In Iceland's resilience, a lesson for us as our world shifts." The Daily Climate. 2014.
Press
“Johanna Hoffman on Speculative Futures of Cities.” Sean Carroll’s Mindscape. 2023.
“8 new books for urban innovators.” Bloomberg Cities. 2023.
“Illuminating the Way Ahead.” The New Abnormal Podcast. 2022.
“Designing and Building Imagined Futures.” Long Now Foundation. 2023.
“The Top Urban Planning Books of 2022.” Planetizen. 2022.
“14 books with Berkeley ties in read in the new year.” Berkeleyside. 2022.
"Winner's Spotlight: Johanna Hoffman. MIT Climate Colab. 2018.
"Waterspots." The Pollination Project. 2018.
"Bay Area Housing and Adaptive Urban Design." The Architect's Take. 2017.
"Designer Imagines an S.F. Airbnb Stay Circa 2200." Next City. 2016.