Maria
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Maria
proliferating futures from a place of possibility, of multitudinous paths forward towards a shared dream.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Ursula Le Guin: "They talked, and new worlds were born of their talking. It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on."
Paradoxically, the most reliable method to envision and plan for futures, isn’t just studying and extrapolating scientific facts, historical developments, psychology and demography, but by building stories beyond our wildest imagination.
Marjolein Pijnappels • Designing the Future Using Science Fiction
Like physics, futures studies are also intrinsically embracing uncertainty as it is emphatically underlined by Amara’s three laws of futures (Amara, 1981): (1) the future is not predetermined, (2) the future is not predictable, and (3) the future outcomes can be influenced by our choices in the present. […]
Patrick Tanguay • Expanding the Futures Cone’s Concept of the Futures and the Pasts ⊗ Reading as Counter-Practice ⊗ A Bot that Watched 70,000 Hours of Minecraft Videos
Because if we can’t articulate more viable futures, and adapt, our human future is pretty hopeless.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Mindy Seu
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