Emerging Futures: An Update
How do we create and proliferate a compelling vision of economies and ecologies that center humans and the natural world over the accumulation of material? We embody. We learn. We release the idea of failure, because it’s all data. But first we imagine.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Now is perhaps the time to examine this transition systemically. To prototype the institutions, instruments, and intelligence infrastructures that can thrive in this new landscape. To design not just for simplistic returns, but for capacity to navigate the systemic complexity unfolding.
We encouraged grant recipients to adapt their ideas rather than insisting that they stick to their original proposals. We trialled work with open data, encouraging maximum transparency alongside many other funders. We also experimented by directly funding beneficiaries and social movements, or by having community groups report through public blogs
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