Mentorships for Audacious Minds

The mentors in Forecast Mentorships’ 2025–26 edition use modes of defamiliarization in their work, expanding the tools and mediums they work with to generate new propositions. By conceptually and technically alienizing familiar creative possibilities, they each venture into uncharted realms in their own practice.

Hussein Chalayan

Reclaiming the Self

Elaine Mitchener

Don’t Overthink It

Lulu Obermayer

Opera: Uprooted, Upended, Unhinged

Ruth Patir

Emotional Technologies

James Richards

Image, Sound, Collaboration

Sote

Locked Timbre