Strategy
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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Adaptive
Beyond linear paths
Why do we think about futures? As anticipatory beings, we’ve evolved to imagine and prepare for what’s ahead. But in today’s complex world, is traditional strategy enough—or is it time to evolve?
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On Hope.
Between tides, we face uncertain futures and the weight of complex challenges. Yet hope rises—not as a lone flame but as a wildfire, igniting resilience. Hope empowers us to move forward together, a shared light guiding us toward what lies beyond the unknown.
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The Comfort of Prutures
We are caught up in prutures—iterations of the present dressed up to look like progress. They’re infused with just enough novelty to convince us that we’re moving forward, yet they don’t truly challenge us. And as comfortable as they may be, prutures are holding us back.
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Mirrors of meaning
Metaphors are like keys that unlock hidden doors in the mansion of the mind (a metaphor to explain metaphor, oh dear). Behind each door lies a room full of potential, complex ideas, abstract emotions, and unspoken truths.
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The Dandelion Approach
This piece explores how the resilience and adaptability of dandelions illustrate the benefits of Futures Work in business, promoting innovative strategies and embracing disruptions for growth.
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Futures Work
Futures Work is still considered somewhat esoteric since it deals with the yet-to-come, the unknowable. In a world that deals usually in facts or fiction, and right or wrong, futures are all probability and possibility. I can relate to that. I am an engineer by training. In my formative years,
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The Future is not Female
The Future is Female. Every time and in every context this sentence irritates me. The Future is Female. I perfectly understand the symbolic value of this phrase, as a metaphor for female empowerment. However, describing the future as inherently female overlooks the broader concept of futures being a space of
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Enough.
Proposition of a guiding principle for an in-between world. Welcome to the hamster wheel Humanity faced scarcity over centuries of their history. Therefore modern, and also partly postmodern values and guiding principles were based on this environment. It was deemed progress to have more.
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Polarities Power to Shape Futures
In a world where polarity, tension, stress, and pressure are often seen as negative, can they be reimagined as the drivers of innovation, growth, and progress? Explore how embracing these opposing forces can lead to transformative change and sustainable solutions in our societies and organizations.
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Fact, Fiction and the Futures
Philosophy navigates truth amidst blurred lines of fact and fiction, crucial in an uncertain future. Technology reshapes our fluid present, highlighting the quest for truth's importance in fostering trust. Embracing the unknown, we design futures with curiosity, courage, and open minds.