Flash Futures 01: Ambient Surveillance

Flash Futures 01: Ambient Surveillance

You read the message again. Counter-productive behaviours have been detected. ​ Your Chronicle is flagged for review. Your watch alerts you to your rising blood pressure, and suggests a minute of slow breathing. What could have triggered this audit? You scan through...
Finding a path through play

Finding a path through play

How can play help build our resilience and ability to adapt to massive challenges like climate collapse? Last week I had the pleasure of playtesting a new game with the crew from Amble Studio exploring that question. It takes a planetary crisis and zooms in to see how...
Scenarios as storytelling

Scenarios as storytelling

What does it take to lead change in uncertain times? This week begins with facilitating a 2 day deep dive into change leadership. We start off with a guided tour of different models and theories of change, then explore ways we can greet resistance to change with...
The future is an emotion

The future is an emotion

If the future doesn’t actually exist, what is it? According to my friend and collaborator Liam Mayo, the future is an emotion. It’s a feeling we experience when we look around and consider what’s possible. I fell in love with foresight because it...
How to begin

How to begin

We all have things we’d like to do, but never quite begin. In the last few months I’ve had a lot of firsts: First design and testing of a game First creation of a digital product, The Future Does Not Exist​ First set up of a podcast from scratch...