Applying human-centered methodologies to teach and discuss desirable futures. Newly published in the Journal of Futures Studies A case study that explores a futures workshop we conducted in collaboration with local faculty at Tamkang University (Taipei) in December 2024. The workshop aimed at enhancing students’ ability to envision desirable futures and combined utopian thinking as… Continue reading Empathizing with Futures.
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Towards a new understanding of catastrophe
Faced with the challenges of climatic change, the ever-accelerating, hyperconnected, digitalised, and highly fragile vuca world acquires another dimension: it becomes vucca: volatile, uncertain, complex, catastrophic, and ambiguous. Tackling this situation requires a novel understanding of what catastrophes are, how they emerge, and what potential lies in them. Once this understanding is established, Futures Studies and Foresight can facilitate the creation of innovative ways to lead, plan, educate and design.
Welcome to the vucca world! (2022)
Faced with the challenges of climatic change, the ever-accelerating, hyperconnected, digitalised, and highly fragile vuca world acquires another dimension: it becomes vucca: volatile, uncertain, complex, catastrophic, and ambiguous. Tackling this situation requires a novel understanding of what catastrophes are, how they emerge, and what potential lies in them. Once this understanding is established, Futures Studies and Foresight can facilitate the creation of innovative ways to lead, plan, educate and design.
Was there no work before the 1st Industrial Revolution?
Work 0.0: Ancient Ideas on the Future of Work – Part II The Fourth Industrial Revolution will change the way humans work across the globe. A look back far into human history may help to find inspirations for designing these new ways of working. Was there no work before the First Industrial Revolution? In general,… Continue reading Was there no work before the 1st Industrial Revolution?
Work 0.0: Ancient Ideas on the Future of Work (2018)
Part I: What does it mean to ‘work’? The 4th Industrial Revolution will change the way humans work across the globe. Discussions about the extent to which technology or Artificial Intelligence (AI) may replace human labour within the next decades are now commonplace, with scenarios ranging from the substitution of almost half of today’s workforce… Continue reading Work 0.0: Ancient Ideas on the Future of Work (2018)
Perspectives on Contingency
Ideas, insights & inspiration for the New Normal In this blog, we will continually publish articles, excerpts and insights from our work on contingency and complexity. Feel free to comment or
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