Back to the Futures
Our monthly round-up
Minimum Viable Foresight (#19)
On AI governance designed like a traffic light when it might work better as a roundabout, and what futures-readiness actually asks of an organisation.
Temporal Tensions (#18)
A summer round-off on why almost nothing we work on fits inside a quarter, and what that mismatch does to how organisations treat future generations.
A Postcard to the Futures (#17)
Three years after ANTICIPATE launched with a name, a direction and a manifesto marked v0.5, a letter back to the futures about what it has become.
Light Through the Cracks (#16)
Institutions stretched thin, attention fragmented, people tired. On where the light still gets in when so much of the present feels cracked.
Decoding the In-between (#15)
A month spent moving between layers - between past and present, and between the edge of change and what people experience in their everyday lives.
In Awe of Agency (#14)
On the power of agency and how much remains open and shapeable, written during a Danish election month that made the point hard to miss.
Committing to Change (#13)
When it is easy to optimise, outsource and unsubscribe, commitment starts to feel optional. On what staying in the friction makes possible.
Regrounding (#12)
January arrived at full speed, with geopolitical shifts and AI everywhere layered on top of personal resets. On finding ground again before moving.
Connecting the Dots (#11)
From London to Dubai, a month of connecting ideas, people and tools, and returning to why we teach and practise foresight in the first place.
Refracting the Futures (#10)
Ecological transition in Ecuador, urban wellbeing, megatrends for design education and democracy reimagined in the Basque Country, all in one month.
Invisible Infrastructure (#9)
The most fundamental parts of our systems stay hidden until they fail. On fundamental rights, extremism and democracy as a living system.
Foresight on the Inside (#8)
Organisations rarely resist foresight out of disinterest. More often it is a reaction to how the futures challenge established ways of working.
The Futures Within (#7)
How each of us relates to the future personally shapes the futures work we do. A month spent turning the foresight lens inward.
Plurality of Perspectives (#6)
Four conferences in four weeks, from Copenhagen to Leipzig and Lisbon, and what they showed about holding space for real differences in perspective.
Breakthrough replacing Breakdown (#5)
Breakthroughs rarely arrive in a flash. More often they come after a slow build-up, at the point where things feel messy, uncertain or stuck.
Leading Change (#4)
Insight on its own moves very little. On the courage, clarity and community that leading change asks for once the vision is in place.
Community & Collective Imagination (#3)
Building better futures is a collective effort. On embedding foresight through Futurist-in-Residence and the growing need for social imagination.
Human Skills in an AI World (#2)
A belated new year edition bridging two years, asking which human skills will matter most as AI takes on more of the work.
Diplomacy for Tomorrow (#1)
The first edition of our monthly letter, on a month of growth at ANTICIPATE and what was moving in the wider futures space that November.