by www | 7 months ago | Export, Short reflections
I’ve been reading Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse by Luke Kemp, and it’s made me reflect on collapse narratives. Although they can be useful (and I certainly use them in some contexts), I’m increasingly wary of collapse narratives in...
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Every futures process answers a hidden question before anyone speaks: Who is this space (or workshop or initiative) designed for? If participation requires quick thinking, public speaking, or confidence under pressure, then only certain people, and by association,...
by www | 8 months ago | Export, Short reflections
Although I know nothing about basketball, I’ve been thinking about something often called the “Chris Paul effect” since reading about it in Jamil Zaki’s article about super-facilitators in the Harvard Business Review. In case you don’t know anything about this...
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Often, a carefully designed futures sessions, packed with sound methods and provocative prompts, yields futures that are flat and oddly familiar. I think that this happens, not because people aren’t imaginative enough, but because they don’t feel safe or brave enough...
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In walkshops, “state change” isn’t something you design on top of the session. It’s already happening, all the time. Every step is a shift. Every corner, sound, smell, encounter, pause, or crossing is a change of state. When we work with futures in urban environments,...
