Awaken your inner futurist

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...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week Revolutions happen in 2 phases: 1. realisation something has gone wrong 2. everyone realised the other person has realised the same thing. People talk more about it. Brian Eno What do you do when you exist within a system you know is not working, yet you feel powerless to change it? Looking back at the last 20 years, this is the question I set out to answer when my work in fashion design and fashion forecasting...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week Taking a systems approach allows for a dynamic and intimate understanding of the elements and agents at play within the problem arena, enabling us to identify opportunities for intervention. The goal is to not solve but to evolve the problem arena you are working within so that the status quo is shifted. Leyla Acaroglu, Disrupt Design Chronos Interrupted How is your relationship with time these days? Mine...

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 International Zero Waste Day: Why Our Wardrobe Choices Matter More Than Ever Today marks the International Day of Zero Waste, and this year's focus hits close to home for all of us who wear clothes (so, just...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week “What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.” — Samuel Johnson (1791) Introduction I haven't connected with you in a minute as I've been nursing today's extensive piece for a while. My biomimicry training has also been taking on a new dimension towards a very systemic approach, something I want to update you on. But for now, here's today's deep dive: What is a Futures Activist?...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week Transformation design means to imagine and create better and new futures that are enduring and differentiated. - Brian Collins How's your week unfolding? Hit reply and let me know. Mine? I'm in the liminal space between phases of my Biomimicry training—just completing Scoping with its deep dive into 1-2-1 interviews, and now plunging into Discovery. The next two months will be a pure research lab: exploring how...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week Beautiful things don’t ask for attention. - Unknown Hello there! A lot to unpack in today's Futuring dispatch: Is the micro trend hamster wheel finally slowing down? - Insights Nature is Positive - Report Pioneers share their vision for 2025 - Forecast Design Tomorrow: Is Speculative Design the key to Fashion retail's future? - Free event Before we dive in, this is urgent: two-thirds of Accra's Kantamanto...

For Creatives Seeking Emergent and Regenerative Future Foresight Thought this week Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static snapshots. Peter Senge Welcome to 2025 🌱 As I deepen my study of biomimicry and practice of systems thinking, I'm struck by the profound connection with future foresight. The insights I'm gaining from my advanced training with Learn Biomimicry...