What turns a crisis into a moment for substantive change? | Aeon Essays

The IFF World Systems Model and the associated IFF World Game were developed to help people explore what a transformative response to our current ‘crisis of perception’ or ‘conceptual emergency’ might look like.

Climate collapse, institutional breakdown, technological disruption, cultural fragmentation - these challenges require strategic intelligence that's regenerative, not extractive. Collaborative, not competitive. Long-term, not myopic.

The transformation is already happening. In the margins, in the experiments, in the quiet rebellions of strategists w

Moments of crisis can be transformative. They are awful, yes, but they also open up new opportunities that you wouldn’t—or couldn’t—otherwise have taken. In fact, the great mystery is not why crises so often seem to change our lives for the better. It is why we seem to be unable to change them any other way.

Meg began by acknowledging the central place of hope in our lives and culture. “The idea that history moves forward, the idea of progress, is one of the building blocks of Western civilization. Part of the bedrock we stand on. But we made it all up. We think our technology will save us, but it actually traps us. Our activism is fueled by similar no