The Futuring Dispatch

I've been nursing this newsletter for months, one little note at a time. In 13 years of sharing with you, this is the most personal I've ever been, and it touches on pregnancy loss and birth complications before getting to where we are now. If this has affected you, feel free to skip the paragraph that starts with "3 weeks later" and pick back up after it. As always thank you for being here. If you’re new and subscribed whilst I was away, know you are deeply welcomed. And for everyone, thank...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week “We can learn to come home to this planet.” Janine Benyus Revolve Evolve Do you get a fuzzy feeling when you come home after being away for a while? For me it’s when I get off the Metro stop at Breguet-Sabin, in the Bastille quarter where I grew up, or when the plane lands in New York where my mother's side of our family lives. Home is the smell of the detergent used to clean my aunt’s building entrance in the...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make. Dr. Jane Goodall Revolve Evolve If you've recently emailed me and seen my out of office, you know that I'm focused on the most meaningful time in my life and taking time for this. I'll reveal more next year. However, writing to...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion’, and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week Design is a tool for social change. Yayra Agbofah Revolve Evolve Earlier this year you may have seen my call to donate to the Revival's campaign to fundraise for rebuilding the Kantamanto Market in Ghana, after the terrible fire that devastated it in January. Yayra Agbofah is the social impact entrepreneur and circular fashion advocate behind THE REVIVAL, a community-led organisation transforming fashion waste...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. Alvin Toffler Revolve Evolve I took a few weeks off from the Futuring Dispatch to complete my certification and am now officially a Certified Biomimicry Educator, part of a global and growing community of biomimics. The final graduation presentation will be shared with you as soon as I...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week Innovation is the child of freedom and the parent of prosperity. Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation works Revolve Evolve Having attended the Future Fabrics Expo this week, I must say the quote by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte 'BioTech is the new Digital' has never rung so true. This week discover my Spur Magazine column inspired by Negroponte's foresight. It outlines the innovations across...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week Relationships are the very oxygen of human development. Dr. Karen Treisman Revolve Evolve Hi everyone I hope you're well. I'm in Portugal right now fully unplugged and prescheduled this Futuring Dispatch for you. Speaking of unplugging - this week we'll be exploring a cultural shift I've been tracking for years if you've been following my forecasts and writing: the rise of a movement rejecting our...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week I am soothed and intrigued by the experience of the longest possible view. I am profoundly drawn to questions of scale. We human beings have a very unique situation which is that we are finite creatures in an infinite universe. Kathryn Schulz author of Lost & Found Revolve Evolve After years of teaching future foresight to professionals across industries, from industry leaders to university students, I kept...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow. Khalil Gibran Revolve Evolve Before diving into today's dispatch with Judith Van Vliet, the visionary behind The Color Authority™, I have a small favour to ask. In case you don't know I founded the Trend Atelier school in 2019. We have a flagship course that has attracted a spectrum of futuring professionals ranging from...