by Suzanne Whitby | 10 months ago | Short. Honest. Human., To export
Amber Howard’s talking about affordable homes in Amsterdam. Innsbruck, where I live, is (apparently) now Austria’s most expensive city to live in. So what makes a place livable, for the people who already live there? More homes? Better use of small spaces? Ethical...
by Suzanne Whitby | 10 months ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
I’ve been thinking about how I am often involved in creating multi-sensory, place-based futures with groups, and I’m reminded again of Miti Desai’s essay about her experience with the gurukul system of training. There is one moment from her writing that has stayed...
by Suzanne Whitby | 10 months ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
There is often a moment in the futures sessions that I facilitate when people stop asking, “Is this the right future?” and start asking, “What future are we willing to create together?” That’s the moment futures work starts to have impact. When we treat people and...
by Suzanne Whitby | 11 months ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
One of the most useful ideas I keep returning to is Adam Grant’s from his book Think Again: in a fast-changing world, the real advantage isn’t being right. It’s being able to think again. Futures processes are basically structured rethinking. We surface assumptions,...
by Suzanne Whitby | 11 months ago | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
I revisited Kristi Nelson’s reflections on deepening our comfort with uncertainty recently, and it got me thinking again about how, in futures and foresight work, uncertainty is often treated as a problem to solve. We scan for signals, build scenarios, model...
