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Conditions to Flourish: Understanding the Ecosystem for Narrative Power
emergent strategy, strategy for building complex patterns and systems of change through relatively small interactions,
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Often, hope works best alongside tools for proactively tackling future challenges. If our work becomes a catalysing force for people to imagine things they would not have been able to imagine otherwise and act upon that imagination, then that’s powerful, and for me, this is a slow form of critical activism.
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
- The need to create “ecologies of synergistic interventions” (solutions) that are connected to each other and the long-term vision as a strategy for transitioning entire societies toward a desirable, long-term futures.
- The need to think and work for long horizons of time. Resolving wicked problems and transitioning entire societies toward sustainabl
Course Introduction – Transition Design Seminar CMU
Instead of delivering for people and absorbing all agency into themselves as the heroes, what they need to do is build agency among both supporters and beneficiaries.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
activist groups are often good at organising and campaigning, but tend to lack storytelling skills. ‘If you don’t [work to] address those underlying narratives and work to … shift them … but also create alternative narratives that are about liberation, then it’s going to be really difficult to do that work.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
