future mapping
the why and the how
future mapping
When we create safe spaces, time away from screens, ‘Yes, and’ spaces, working with other people over tasks that facilitate connection and craft a narrative that offers a hopeful take on the future, the world can start to come back into focus.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
The first one, shifting from groupthink to Responsible Disobedience , is all about unlocking better outcomes. Breaking away from conformity and disobeying the expected, but doing so with a principled compass. Challenging not for the sake of rebellion, but for the pursuit of a sustainable, equitable, and human-centric future.
From Groupthink to Responsible Disobedience
Innovation begins with inspiration. Positive visions of the future inject people with imagination, which pulls the future forward.
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
We need to play at living in the kind of world we want to create.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Try as we might to utilize reason and logic for our arguments, the human race is first and foremost an emotional species. On a base level, I might even say that the most important aspect of foresight is the ability to create emotional connections between people and their possible, probable, preferred, and preventable futures.
Seth T. Harrell • Affective Foresight
“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 t... See more
The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
lots of this is too nebulous - but the mindset shift from ‘think exponentially, act incrementally’ to ‘think transformationally, act transitionally’ is really potent
when you aren’t just dismantling the narrative but providing another one, you are creating a new reality for your audience.
Rebecca Johnson • Drawing Wisdom From the ‘Weird’
even as the most popular doll in the world, Mattel looked to confront the way they’d always done things. “We attacked every aspect of the business, from product to communication to content to social mission,” McKnight explained. This helped them ask more upstream questions about their own incumbency – challenging themselves to think about what Barb
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