6. Strategic Foresight looks at multiple, alternative
futures e.g. the many ways in which the world
might evolve.
Then, we consider what the implications are for us.
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7. How do we leverage stories about the
future for systemic design?
Experiential Futures:
"Situations and stuff from the future that
catalyze change."
-Stuart Candy
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8. WHY
EXPERIENCE THE
FUTURE?
T r i g g e r n e w t h i n k i n g
P r o t o t y p e w h a t ' s p o s s i b l e
G r o u n d p r o p o s e d s y s t e m i c
c h a n g e i n s o m e t h i n g v i s c e r a l
a n d t a n g i b l e
C o m m u n i c a t e c o n s e q u e n c e s o f
c o m p l a c e n c y
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9. EXAMPLE 1: UNESCO FUTURES
LITERACY LAB
Phase 1: Tacit to Explicit
Phase 2: Reframing
Phase 3: New Questions
Challenge Anticipatory Assumptions: Expectations shape our
sensing and sense-making about the future.
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14. MIN SPEC FOR
FUTURE-PROOFING
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1) How does it support long-term environmental
sustainability?
2) How does it enable justice, equality, and democracy?
3) How is it helped or hindered by AI, and what are the
underlying ethics and assumptions?