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Our monthly round-up

Minimum Viable Foresight (#19)
Mathias Behn Bjørnhof Mathias Behn Bjørnhof

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.

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Temporal Tensions (#18)
Mathias Behn Bjørnhof Mathias Behn Bjørnhof

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.

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A Postcard to the Futures (#17)
Mathias Behn Bjørnhof Mathias Behn Bjørnhof

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.

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Light Through the Cracks (#16)
Mathias Behn Bjørnhof Mathias Behn Bjørnhof

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.

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Decoding the In-between (#15)
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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.

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In Awe of Agency (#14)
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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.

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Committing to Change (#13)
Mathias Behn Bjørnhof Mathias Behn Bjørnhof

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.

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Regrounding (#12)
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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.

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Connecting the Dots (#11)
Mathias Behn Bjørnhof Mathias Behn Bjørnhof

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.

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Refracting the Futures (#10)
Mathias Behn Bjørnhof Mathias Behn Bjørnhof

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.

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Invisible Infrastructure (#9)
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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.

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Foresight on the Inside (#8)
Mathias Behn Bjørnhof Mathias Behn Bjørnhof

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.

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The Futures Within (#7)
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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.

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Plurality of Perspectives (#6)
Mathias Behn Bjørnhof Mathias Behn Bjørnhof

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.

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Breakthrough replacing Breakdown (#5)
Mathias Behn Bjørnhof Mathias Behn Bjørnhof

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.

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Leading Change (#4)
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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.

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Community & Collective Imagination (#3)
Mathias Behn Bjørnhof Mathias Behn Bjørnhof

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.

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Human Skills in an AI World (#2)
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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.

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Diplomacy for Tomorrow (#1)
Mathias Behn Bjørnhof Mathias Behn Bjørnhof

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.

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