Speculative Futures of Humanitarian Aid — IFRC Solferino Academy
More concretely, you can become familiar with the tools used by strategists, innovators, designers, creators and forecasters to find and explore pieces of possible futures today.
Scott Smith • How to Future
Due to a steady increase in climate-driven disruption – intense storm seasons and flooding of densely populated coastal areas in Asia, drought-intensified conflict in the Mediterranean, Maghreb and southern Africa, and fires in South America – hundreds of thousands of people are left homeless and unable to remain in place. In 2026 alone, upwards of
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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
You can research, assess, construct and communicate versions and variations of futures to better understand probable, plausible and possible landscapes that lie ahead, regardless of the question, space or realm you wish to imagine, explore, plan for – or against. It takes a future, even a speculative, strange, uncanny or orthogonal one, to fill a v
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