by Suzanne Whitby | Jun 27, 2024 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
Following on from my recent thoughts about collective intelligence as a futures skill, I thought I’d come back to the widespread assumption that leadership, and futures work, requires certainty. That someone, somewhere, should know where things are headed and what...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jun 7, 2024 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
Place is never just a backdrop. Every place encodes power: who it was designed for, who feels welcome, who is watched, who belongs, and who does not. Boardrooms, campuses, public squares, heritage sites, city streets: each one quietly signals whose voices matter and...
by Suzanne Whitby | May 17, 2024 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
In many futures conversations, the most important futures are the ones no one names. Sometimes they’re avoided because they feel too political, too uncomfortable, or too implausible. Sometimes people assume others don’t want to hear them. Sometimes they’re hard to...
by Suzanne Whitby | Apr 30, 2024 | Notebook, Short. Honest. Human., To export
Thought-provoking. Evidently, children must be protected from stories about wolves in fairy tale forests (that may have been used to warn young women in factories to be wary of wolf-ish men). Obviously, no need to worry about guns. The text below the two girls says,...
by Suzanne Whitby | Apr 27, 2024 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
Curiosity is often treated as a personality trait, a thing that you either have or don’t. But in futures and foresight work (and no doubt in other creative practices), curiosity functions more like a muscle that can be strengthened, weakened, or neglected over time....
