Imagination Literacy: Foresight-Fueled Action
This month the Wicked Problem is Tragedy of the Commons, the prevailing problem of scarcity of natural and human resources. We’ve reframed this complex problem as the Wicked Opportunity of Imagination Literacy. Rather than imposing the fixed ideas about our present-day disciplines, industries and practices on the future, Imagination Literacy suggests we must remain open to learning, unlearning and relearning as a means to co-creating novel capabilities and approaches.
CONTENT 1: WICKED OPPORTUNITY PODCAST
The opportunities afforded to us through an environment of emerging complexity are useless unless we act upon them in the here and now. Rather than imposing the fixed ideas about our present-day disciplines, industries and practices on the future, we must remain open to learning, unlearning and relearning as a means to co-creating novel capabilities and approaches. In the final episode of the Imagination Literacy series, Yvette and Frank examine the future-empowered roles of a Chief Resilience Office, an HR Talent Manager and a Food Scientist, and then ask their listeners to take this journey for themselves.
CONTENT 2: FORESIGHT FUELED ACTION
In this webcast, author, filmmaker and scholar Ytasha Womack talks with Kedge Principal Frank Spencer about the role that her work in Afrofuturism and Futures Thinking plays in fostering hope, imagination and transformation in communities around the world. She touches on subjects such as democratizing futures for innovative ideas, radical inclusion, and looking for the “story that’s not told” to create aspirational visions of tomorrow.
Watch the interview here
