Multiplayer Futures
Collective ownership unlocks what was previously behind closed doors; the second stage of emergence: communities of practice.
“When local efforts connect as networks, then commit to work as a community of practice, a new system emerges at a greater level of scale.” — The Berkana Institute
“By making (ownership) a multiplayer game, it becomes a t... See more
Keely Adler • Multiplayer Futures
Relationships occur in spaces of centralized power, necessarily extractive and driven largely by self-interest. To build a real coalition is resource-intensive; it doesn’t come naturally. PvP is the norm; imagining connections outside the boundaries of a single organization or a single partnership is hard to do because the blueprint hasn’t been the... See more
Keely Adler • Multiplayer Futures
humans, particularly those influenced by Western schools of thought, have a tendency to see ourselves outside it all: as “separate individuals among other separate individuals in a universe that is separate from us as well”.
Matt Weatherall • Multiplayer Futures
Simply being aware of the chaos and complexity isn’t much comfort if our focus remains on the efforts of the individual. In Western strategic tradition, change is viewed as the result of struggle, conflict, and force. The hero is the one who defeats the odds to impose their vision on reality. Exceptional individuals wrestle chaos, complexity, and u... See more
Keely Adler • Multiplayer Futures
“Not just replacing wrong or incomplete stories with better ones, not exactly inventing fictions further out in time, not exactly strategic foresight, futures, forecasts, or any of the related term either. A new space between all of them, with a lot more people purposefully included.”
Fancy • Multiplayer Futures
“Rather than providing pre-packaged images of possible futures, it is important to encourage do-it-yourself and do-it-together attitudes towards the creation and exploration of futures.”
— FoAM, The Art of Futuring
Keely Adler • Multiplayer Futures
Who thinks about the future today?
Brands after their own self-interests. Agencies after their own self-interests (or, if we’re lucky, after their clients’ interests). Employees in trendy offices surrounded by like-minded co-workers and like-minded networks, courting cookie-cutter clients with cookie-cutter visions of tomorrow.
At least, that’s who... See more
Brands after their own self-interests. Agencies after their own self-interests (or, if we’re lucky, after their clients’ interests). Employees in trendy offices surrounded by like-minded co-workers and like-minded networks, courting cookie-cutter clients with cookie-cutter visions of tomorrow.
At least, that’s who... See more
Fancy • Multiplayer Futures
To ‘instigate’ is to enable and empower the dispersal of leadership throughout an organization. It’s to create a network of trust between members, with safe spaces for people to show up as their whole selves and step into positions of leadership. It’s to know how to create momentum for a cause (or simply, a vibe). It’s to build an environment that ... See more
Matt Weatherall • Multiplayer Futures
we wanted to break the legacy paradigm where research too often sits static; we wanted to hold ourselves accountable to turning passive reporting into forward motion that could result in products, services, and concepts that would bring us closer to the better future we’d discovered