Bio
Luke Boyle is a Ph.D. candidate in innovation in global development at Arizona State University’s College of Global Futures. Originally from Cape Town, South Africa, he holds a master’s in urban sustainability from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and previously conducted research at UCT’s Urban Real Estate Research Unit, where he published widely on the forces shaping urban transformations in African cities. His Ph.D. research investigates digital transformations in African cities by centring the urban margins. Specifically, he explores how digital practices and lived experience generate alternative sociotechnical imaginaries that challenge dominant narratives of technological progress and urban development. This research has been recognized through the School of International Futures’ 2024 Next Generation Foresight Practitioner Fellowship and the 2025 ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. Combining creative foresight methods with decolonial and participatory approaches, his scholarship advances pluralistic approaches to futures thinking and science and technology studies. His broader aim is to deploy research methods centred on care, respect and situated knowledge to reimagine what constitutes futurity, who performs it and how African epistemologies can broaden the study of technology, urbanity and futurity.