GENEVIEVE ENNIS HUME  





PROFILE 

Genevieve Ennis Hume is a strategic advisor and systems designer who helps organizations identify and navigate emerging risk and possibility. From countering crisis misinformation to developing space mining policy, her work connects speculative futures with adaptive frameworks to shape what comes next. 



She is the (co)founder of Fractal, Implikit, Infrastructure Intelligence Lab, Hume Atelier, and Loaded Bow.


EXPERIENCE 






Select Collaborators
Berkman Klein Center
Centre for Existential Risk
Durex 
European Space Agency
Global Mercury Project
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Harvard Kennedy School 
MIT Media Lab
Pepsi Digital
Planetary Resources
OPSYS—Venice Architecture Biennale
OECD
The Future Society
Science Summit at United Nations General Assembley
SES Satellite
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
USAID
Select
FellowshipsTeaching Fellow
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
HARVARD DISTINCTION AND EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD
ES 20 How to Create Things and Have Them Matter


Research Fellow
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Idea translation fellowship in pneumonic actuation and soft robotics

Impact Fellow
Summit Impact
Social impact and generative futures

Fellow
Harvard Innovation Lab
Critical mineral and supply chain futures

Climate Impact Fellow
Summit Impact
Collective learning and network mapping with climate leaders    
Select Speaking 
& Facilitation 

 Fractal Risk and Generative Futures
Summit Detroit 

Technology as Shapeshifter
Flyfish Club, New York Climate Week 

Love Our Monsters: AI Infrastructure and Climate Crisis
Summit at Sea 

Mining the Nervous System
Smithsonian National Museum of
American History 

Writing Memory Into Meaning
Loaded Bow 

Neuroscience and the Geographically Displaced Crisis 
Ocean Plastic Leadership Summit,
Expedition to the Northern Atlantic
Plastic Gyre 

A More Beautiful Question: Culture, Conflict and The Brain
Team 25 

From Bangui to the Moon: The Risks and Opportunities of Space Mining
Harvard Graduate School of Design

Dimensions of Good: Cognitive 
Science and Machine Learning
MIT Media Lab 

Is Arctic Capital? Climate & the 
Northern Data Economy 
Harvard Urban Theory Lab 

Space Ontologies: Shaping the discourse on expansive futures
Science Summit at 78th United Nations General Assembly

Fieldwork, Design, Risk
Rhode Island School of Design
Pratt Institute 

Education
Master of Design Studies
Risk and Resilience
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Research and Development Award

Master of Arts
International and Intercultural Communication
Royal Roads University

Bachelor of Human Kinetics
University of British Columbia
Valedictorian
Personal Genevieve is working on a (wet!)land restoration project on the South Coast of Vancouver Island that keeps her in the forest and surf. 

She is the parent of a joyful toddler who is both a respite from all that is happening in our world and a reminder of just how high the stakes are.






gen@fractalintelligence.org
SELECT WORK








Space Futures2017 — Ongoing



Advisor and Convener
SPACE ONTOLOGIES
SCIENCE SUMMIT
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Principal  Researcher
CELESTIAL SOVEREIGN
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN





 Celestial Futures is a foresight initiative that broadens our understanding of opportunity as we push the physical and technological frontiers of outer space. Building on Celestial Sovereign—which mapped the technological, geopolitical, and economic impacts of space mining across five countries—it examines energy sources, geospatial misinformation, data centers, biosynthetics, and AI in space; and expands the narratives of space futures by centering the voices of Indigenous scientists, conservationists, and technologists. 


Fieldwork within organizations including: 

Centre for Existential Risk, Committee for Peaceful Uses of Outer Space at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, European Space Agency, Future of Humanity Institute, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Harvard Law School, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law, Planetary Resources, and SES Satellites.



Image: Inversion of Antennae Galaxies , 2017



AI and Climate Adaptation2016 — Ongoing


Artificial Intelligence and Data Infrastructure Lead
CLIMATE JUSTICE WORKING GROUP
BERKMAN KLEIN CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY

Principal Strategist
INFRASTRUCTURE INTELLIGENCE LAB

Convener and Facilitator
BEYOND THE CLOUD
SCIENCE SUMMIT
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Co-founder
VERUS INTELLIGENCE

Leader Researcher
ARCTIC CAPITAL
HARVARD URBAN THEORY LAB
 This work brings together scientists, engineers, and policy makers to apply climate technology to alternative futures and the collective imagination—from designing speculative data networks in the Arctic, to deploying AI in climate emergencies to mitigate misinformation. It anticipates regulatory shifts, supply chain vulnerabilities, and infrastructure risks before they scale, and cultivates rigorous, creative, and practical policy to address the climate impacts of AI and data infrastructure globally. 

Risk frameworks integrate narrative monitoring, geopolitical analysis, and crisis communications, and center information and infrastructure integrity as critical resources.



    Photo: MareNostrum Supercomputer,  Torre Giona Chapel

    Emerging Technologies
    and Biofeedback Systems    2016 — Ongoing


    Principal
    IMPLIKIT

    Director
    BRAIN AND COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE UNIT
    THE FUTURE SOCIETY

    Research Fellow
    WYSS INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED ENGINEERING
    This body of work explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and collective cognition, anticipating how brain-computer interfaces will transform decision-making and social coordination across sectors. Through neurotechnology initiatives, pneumonic actuation research, and biologically-inspired robotics, the work surfaces critical challenges in emerging brain-computer systems while developing frameworks that address power distribution, privacy, and data ownership.

    By investigating how natural cognitive and motor systems inform adaptive artificial intelligence architectures, this research reveals breakthrough approaches to human-AI collaboration, autonomous system design, and distributed problem-solving that transcend current limitations in both individual and organizational intelligence, positioning diverse stakeholders to lead rather than react to the convergence of neurotechnology, robotics, and collective intelligence.




    Critical Minerals and
    Compute Infrastructure
    2008 — Ongoing


    Principal & Policy Lead
    HUME ATELIER

    Principal Strategist
    INFRASTRUCTURE INTELLIGENCE LAB

    Exhibitor
    CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION
    VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

    Supply Chain Futures Fellow
    HARVARD INNOVATION LAB
     Addressing the complex intersection of resource extraction, environmental stewardship, and geopolitical stability through policy development and community-centered research. Contributions to international standards for responsible mineral sourcing have informed landmark initiatives including UNIDO's Global Mercury Project and OECD's Due Diligence guidelines that became industry and government frameworks across multiple jurisdictions.

    Through extensive fieldwork in African and South American mining communities, ecological restoration, property rights strengthening, and the creation of traceable supply chains have been supported while addressing the environmental and social impacts of extracting minerals essential for green energy transitions.




    Teaching, Facilitation
    and Curricula Design    2006 — 2024


    Teaching Fellow
    Distinction and Excellence in Teaching Award
    HARVARD JOHN A. PAULSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES

    Faculty
     KAOSPILOT


    Lecturer
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

    Guest Lecturer
    PRATT INSTITUTE
    RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
    HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN     15+ years developing transformative curricula that explores how to solve problems without clean solutions. Specialized in systems design, epistemic pluralism, applied neuroscience, and conflict and collaboration across cultures and technologies.

    Teaching Fellow at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, recipient of the Distinction and Excellence in Teaching Award for How to Create Things and Have Them Matter, a course focused on the generation and realization of ideas, with an emphasis on engineering narratives, the neuroscience of creating, and aesthetic intelligence.

    International experience spans four continents as faculty at Kaospilot and the University of British Columbia.



    Loaded Bow2010 — 2024

    Co-Founder and Co-Producer
    Loaded Bow is  an international community convening artists, scientists, educators, economists, technologists, healthcare providers, and athletes for deep dialogue on risk, culture, and emerging futures.

    Faculty have included Indigenous knowledge holders, cultural producers, and strategic leaders from Google DeepMind, Harvard Law Review, MIT, WHO, Wired, and the New York Times, creating rare cross-pollination between sectors typically siloed from one another.

    This project has generated 60+ cross-sector collaborations spanning food security to AI in urban planning, with a combined portfolio value of $20M+.



    © Genevieve Ennis Hume  2025