On Participation
Participation is key to Futures Work, yet often resisted by hierarchies valuing efficiency over collaboration. Its value lies in complexity's nature.
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On futures we mistake for change
When the present grows too heavy to move, organizations often reach for the same answer they always reach for, the promise of more control. The reflex is almost automatic. Prutures.
Too Much to Move.
We often imagine change as a clean swap of parts, one process out, another in, and we keep telling ourselves that with enough focus and discipline the machine will run better.
The Art of Letting Go Without Falling Apart
Transformation isn’t subtraction. It’s not about taking something out to make space. It’s the reconfiguration itself that changes everything. Letting go isn’t absence, it’s a shift in how things relate so something new can begin.
After we build: The Ethics of Scaffolds
Most structures are built to last. But what if that isn't the point? Sometime care looks like building, and sometimes care looks like stepping aside.