by Suzanne Whitby | Oct 7, 2023 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
We often talk about futures work as if it happens in a room. But place is never neutral. Every futures conversation is shaped by where it happens: what people can see, hear, smell, remember, and move through. Place carries histories, power, exclusions, habits, and...
by Suzanne Whitby | Sep 27, 2023 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
Most futures work still treats imagination as something that happens in the head. But the brain doesn’t work that way. What neuroscience shows, and what experiential futures make tangible, is that imagination is embodied. We think with our whole nervous system, not...
by Suzanne Whitby | Sep 16, 2023 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
We tend to talk about futures and foresight as analytical capabilities: the ability to scan signals, build scenarios, or anticipate change. But I’m increasingly convinced that one of the most important futures skills is something else entirely: collective...
by Suzanne Whitby | Sep 7, 2023 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
Most futures work still treats imagination as something that happens in the head. But the brain doesn’t work that way. What neuroscience shows, and what experiential futures make tangible, is that imagination is embodied. We think with our whole nervous system, not...
by Suzanne Whitby | Sep 6, 2023 | Notebook, To export
I’m thinking about funerals. Specifically, funerals for glaciers. In 2019, there was the Okjökull glacier funeral in Iceland. In 2021, a ceremony was held for the Clark glacier in Oregon. And this week, on 5th September 2023, a funeral ceremony took place for the...
