by Amanda Reeves | May 23, 2023 | Field notes
It’s been a minute since I last wrote, but you’ve been on my mind. Much of my attention over the past months has been poured into two new university offerings I have been supporting as they take their first steps into the world. Last week I ran my final...
by Amanda Reeves | Apr 2, 2023 | Field notes, Futures Book Club
Hello friends, Things may have been quiet in my published writings, but I’ve been head down working behind the scenes. I’ve recently begun tutoring for University of Technology Sydney (UTS), on a fantastic new undergrad subject calledĀ Envisioning Futures...
by Amanda Reeves | Feb 15, 2023 | Field notes
At it’s heart, foresight is a practice of engaging with the potential of what the future might hold so we can better play our part in creating a future worth wanting (thanks to Sam Yu for this very catchy phrase). But how does thinking and talking about...
by Amanda Reeves | Jan 31, 2023 | Field notes
When I tell the story of how I became a futurist, people are often surprised to learn that my training as an artist was just as helpful for developing my practice as my experience in change, improvement and innovation. On the surface, it might seem there is not much...
by Amanda Reeves | Jan 17, 2023 | Field notes
To answer this question, we need to zoom out – wayyyy out. In 2002, astronomers from John Hopkins University set out to answer this question by taking a census of all the observable light in the universe to calculate the average colour. The answer: Cosmic Latte,...
by Amanda Reeves | Jan 10, 2023 | Field notes
Part of the challenge of transformational change is learning to extend your imaginative capability to see a myriad of ways that the world could be made different. No matter how much reflection and introspection you’ve done, we all have assumptions and beliefs...
