About Johanna Hoffman

Johanna Hoffman is an urbanist working in the space between design, planning, fiction, and futures. The Co-Founder and Director of Planning at Design for Adaptation, Hoffman uses strategic planning and speculative design to help communities, cities, and organizations translate future uncertainties into present day choice. She holds an MLA from UC Berkeley, has created adaptation strategies for international companies, led long-term planning for leading academic centers, and held fellowships at centers like the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the European Futures Observatory, the Buckminster Fuller Institute, the Berggruen Institute and USC. Her first book, Speculative Futures: Design Apporaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience and Co-Create the Cities We Need was published October 2022 and is distributed by Penguin Random House. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.