By José Ramos and Jeanne Hoffman Pacifica Means Peace is a project dedicated to envisioning a future of peaceful coexistence between the USA, China, and all the other countries in the Pacific Rim. The project uses a participatory futures approach to explore the futures we collectively wish to avoid and those we aspire to create. …
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Pacifica Means Peace is a project that aims to envision a peaceful coexistence between the USA and China and all the other countries in the Pacific Rim. The project uses a participatory futures approach to engage the public in considering the futures that we want to avoid and that we want to create. There is …
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Every now and again I come across word conjunctions that stick in my mind and don’t let go. I live in the Victorian Central Highlands, the Goldfields region of Victoria, and in my EV conversion wanderings I came across a number of people who I began affectionately referring to as “solar punk hillbillies”. These people …
The experimentation podcast is an idea for a podcast series that interviews people in real labs from around the world, to find out what experimentation means for them. Labs are a worldwide phenomenon. They exist in many countries and for many purposes. They vary from labs that are dedicated to the hard sciences, to social …
Comment Pacifica Means Peace (PMP) is a project to use participatory futures methods to envision a peaceful coexistence between the USA and China. Images of the future have the power to shape the imagination of the public and policymakers. As well, images of the future come with cognitive bias, for example a military think tank …
The Virtual Centre for Collaborative Governance was created to support the capacity for people in many avenues to engage in the collaborative governance of our shared commons. Background Collaborative governance of our shared commons represents a phase shift in human thinking and practice in governance. A commons is something which a group of people mutually …
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Collaborative governance includes the variety of methods, strategies and knowledge necessary to work together to protect, nurture and create our commons. It includes approaches like “Collective Impact”, a method for creating systemic change, deep dialog and deep democracy processes for inclusive decision making, the use of cooperatives and mutuals in ensuring equity and trust for …
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The MFP is a course for creating hybrid and mutant methods, selves and futures. We all know that our world is going through tremendous and dramatic transitions. Old patterns are falling away, new ones must be born. We live in Epic and Messy times. Epic because we each play a part in a dramatic story …
The Futures Lab Academy is a learning space for exploring and experimenting with the critical ideas and practices needed to address our 21st Century challenges. The purpose of the Futures Lab Academy is to help people discover their unique powers and purpose in the service of navigating the great transitions and challenges we collectively face. …
“The Mutants program gave me an opportunity to develop the skills, theories and understandings I acquired during my time completing the Swinburne Masers in Strategic Foresight. Expertly and gently guided by Jose, we worked coherently, challenging my biases and exploring my own personal narrative, within a safe and supportive environment, to develop my pitch to …
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