Notebook
This is a curated space where I gather reflections, articles, event reports, provocations, and fragments from across my work. Expect me to dip into futures, storytelling, sustainability, experiential formats and more.
Planned obsolescence as a future assumption
Planned obsolescence is often discussed as a moral problem, and so it is. It does real damage, socially and ...
Why futures facilitation needs state change, not longer explanations
Futures work asks people to question assumptions, imagine alternatives, and sit with uncertainty. None of that ...
Participation is how futures become shared
Futures don’t become actionable because they’re clever. They become actionable because people recognise themselves ...
Futures don’t fail. Conversations do.
When futures work fails, it’s tempting to blame the method. Maybe the scenarios were too abstract. Maybe the time ...
Don’t be a dick.
Every wondered about the origin story of this meme?
The legacy of the A23a iceberg
When icebergs fragment, they seed by dropping entrained mineral nutrients. Incredible!
Designing futures workshops for introvert-extroverts
For a long time, I tried to decide whether I was an introvert or an extrovert. Having explored all the personality ...
To comma or not to comma, that is the question
I love a good comma. A quick check to make sure that I am using it correctly in a new project.
AI is not the puppet master
AI doesn't change the world on its own. People who use AI change the world. Tools vs people.
Story and scenario: why facilitating futures work needs both
In futures and foresight, we often talk about scenarios, or multiple plausible futures, that offer structured ...
What colour is the most common in flowers?
My guess was wrong. And the answer to the question is blindingly obvious!
Hope as a form of systems literacy
In futures work, hope is often misunderstood. It’s sometimes treated as optimism, a belief that things will turn ...
Power, voice, and the futures that never speak
Power in futures work doesn’t just show up in who sets the agenda. It shows up in who feels able to speak.
Place is a futures co-facilitator
We often talk about futures work as if it happens in a room. But place is never neutral. When we work with place ...
Why experiential futures work (and why presentations about futures often don’t)
Most futures work still treats imagination as something that happens in the head. But the brain doesn’t work that way.
Collective intelligence as a futures skill
We tend to talk about futures and foresight as analytical capabilities: the ability to scan signals, build ...
Why experiential futures work (and why presentations about futures often don’t)
Most futures work still treats imagination as something that happens in the head. But the brain doesn’t work that way.
Musings of funerals for glaciers
What if we celebrated the nature that we have, and that we have lost, instead of holding funeral ceremonies?
Stories and their ability to transport
Becoming involved in a narrative world can have measurable consequences.
Questions keep the future open
We often talk about futures work as if it happens in a room. But place is never neutral. When we work with place ...
Uncertainty isn’t the problem. Our relationship to it is
We’re wired to treat uncertainty like a threat. Not metaphorically. Neurologically. Ambiguity scrambles our ...
The journey’s start and single steps
When you're trying to trick yourself out of a moment of procrastination.
Hope as a form of systems literacy
In futures work, hope is often misunderstood. It’s sometimes treated as optimism, a belief that things will turn ...
Why the facilitator’s story matters in futures work
Have you ever noticed how the most compelling facilitators, teachers, and change-makers all seem to be good ...
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