by Suzanne Whitby | Jun 9, 2022 | Notebook, To export
Let’s talk about food waste. Our World in Data has a great visual to help us understand how much food we and our food systems waste each year. So what are we seeing here? First off, we can see that food production accounts for a whopping 26% of all global...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jun 7, 2022 | Faciliating Futures
One of my favourite questions in place-based futures work is simple, but deceptive. I ask, “Whose futures are visible in this space, and whose are missing?” This is a question that I usually ask in the present, often on a participatory walk, and sometimes in a room,...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jun 1, 2022 | Notebook, To export
I consider myself an optimist. I may even have been called a bit of a “Pollyanna” and after knowing each other for a year or so, a colleague sent me a copy of the film “Pay It Forward” with a note saying “Saw this and was reminded of...
by Suzanne Whitby | May 7, 2022 | Faciliating Futures
In futures work, hope is often misunderstood. (It’s certainly understood in other contexts, too, but I’ll try to stay on topic!) In futures, it’s sometimes treated as optimism, which is a belief that things will turn out well if we just think positively enough. That...
by Suzanne Whitby | Apr 7, 2022 | Faciliating Futures
A lot of modern infrastructure quietly assumes constant uptime. The internet. Our power systems. Our payment systems. Our GPS-powered navigation tools. When any of them stutter, even if only momentarily, things start to unravel quickly. I’ve observed that this...
