by Amanda Reeves | Nov 15, 2022 | Field notes
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...
by Amanda Reeves | Oct 11, 2022 | Field notes
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...
by Amanda Reeves | Sep 27, 2022 | Field notes
Change happens all the time, in all the different spaces of our lives. In my former life as a change lead and coach, helping people come to terms with change was as much part of the job as planning, implementing, and sustaining the change itself. As a futurist, I work...
by Amanda Reeves | Sep 20, 2022 | Field notes
Last week a bunch of us playtested my very first game Greetings from Polakvale and we had a blast! I was (let’s be fair – still am) equal parts excited and intimidated by the enthusiastic response people had to joining the playtest and their experience....
by Amanda Reeves | Sep 13, 2022 | Field notes
As we entered into COVID, a lot of workplaces operated on a model that constantly sought to do more with less to maximise profit (or value). In many cases, this model was underpinned by extracting as much value as possible from workers. Some adopted a culture of...
