Was on a panel just yesterday at the CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies) Ideas Lab where we discussed the topic of how to engage citizens in future-oriented governance. As the Missions play a role in the EU's agenda setting for the next 10 years, a…lnkd.in/efM_kFDe
Today is international day of the world's Indigenous Peoples. Meet the @ESG_Project working group 'ESGRREW': where different perspectives can join forces and build better representation. The group will convene in Toronto in October, including a book launch earthsystemgovernance.org/re…
Indeed a great pleasure to have worked with you and JRC team on developing the game, and then getting this paper written, revised (thx @JFSdigital team for your help!), and published.
(I couldn't break from vacation for Twitter though...not this year ;) ) .
Nothing better than interrupting the vacation to find out our article has just been published @rorosoro: Playable Policy Design: The FuturGov Game as Means to Negotiate Future-Situated Policy Options jfsdigital.org/playable-poli…
Needed to read this again today:
"Crazy futures: Why Plausibility is Maladaptive" by @wendyinfuturesshorturl.at/lmyTX
A well researched an reasoned counter to the wet blanket of 'plausibility' that increasingly accompanies future scenarios.
and this "A possible antidote can be found in audience participation...The futures generated are emergent properties of the participants’ interactions with each other, and the useful strangeness arises from those interactions."
and landing in a call to coda: "In order to thrive in whatever futures we pass through, it helps to rehearse what our values, assumptions, decisions and actions - our very sense of self - might be in those futures...and rehearse for the impossible as well."
thx @wendyinfutures
ICYMI - We recently launched our #ExperimentalMethods cards! Many of you wanted to have physical copies for reference, use in academia, and in governments around the world! So, here's a print-your-own version! ✂️✂️🀄️🃏
drive.google.com/file/d/1L_J…
It took a long time to cross the Atlantic, but the second print of the “Critical Zones Science and Politics of Landing on Earth” is now available in all its magnificence @mitpress from @zkmkarlsruhe
I do not know what type of magical deepfakery was used in the production of this nightmarish video...but i approve.
We often ask about how might #futures make you feel...(@futuryst) - this *image* had me on the terrified rollercoaster for 59 seconds.
Which imaginaries underlie our thinking about mobility futures? And what happens if we (do not) change them?
Join my #InauguralLecture on June 3rd: lnkd.in/efCpRhTF