🧩 proj - shifting narrative landscapes
references & inspo for journal article with Andrés.
🧩 proj - shifting narrative landscapes
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.
= narrative change
“The Official Future” tells us to “think exponentially, act incrementally,” beckoning us to utilize foresight in service of the ever-expanding present systems of quantifying, micro-analyzing, extracting, consuming, and automating. This way of futuring is at the heart of Epistemic Uncertainty. “The Emergent Future” instead challenges us to “ think... See more
The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
Nevertheless, challenges to long-held assumptions take place when individuals dive deeper and deeper into anticipatory imagination and provocation, and this opens the door to transformative realities that profoundly change the perspective of the foresight practitioner. Consequently, the possibility of these new worlds become an internal experience that can no longer be ignored.
= narrative change
The world is a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological–social–psychological–economic system. We treat it as if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple, and infinite. Our persistent, intractable global problems arise directly from this mismatch. – Donella Meadows
Navigating cultural transformations 1_2.docx
mindscape
exploring alternate realities reveals the interlocking contingencies of the status quo, speculative stories may prove useful not just to those imagining the future, but those who seek to invent it.
Eliot Peper • The Possibility Engine
The space between stories is an invitation to sit with mystery and the uncertainty it holds.