future mapping
the why and the how
future mapping
the why and the how
imagination, rather than being seen as an ‘essential skill’, is commonly perceived as messy, unpredictable, a bit cheeky, potentially uncontrollable and a frivolous and unprofitable use of time.
And basically, my gripe is, we collectively generally treat every transition the way I used to treat “time for recess”: This is just going to happen, so let’s not focus on how it’s going to happen, or whether the getting there is hard. Let’s just get from here to there, OK? And then we can be there and forget about here.
Sociologist Elise Boulding calls this ‘temporal exhaustion’, arguing that ‘if one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imagining the future.’