Humans have been shaping the future since fire. What’s new is the number of organizations treating the future as a design space – with good outcomes.
We don’t just talk about the future, we build it. The Guide Project connects the communities of practice designing futures. Figures out what they’ve discovered that works. Creates a pattern language of their findings. Then helps the process scale. It is based at the Design School of Arizona State University, the “most innovative” in the country, according to U.S. News.
Knowledge, narrative and design are the three legs of the Project’s stool.
To accelerate novel, audacious ways to imagine – and then create – human futures in which we can thrive. First step: to create The Guidebook: How to Design the Future. It is a “book” – platform agnostic – that symphonizes the rapidly growing wisdom, experience and best practices of these communities to achieve success practically. The Guidebook, however, is just the start. As our colleague Brad Allenby says, “The missing element is teaching ‘Designing Complex Adaptive Systems While Being Part of Them.’ You need someone who is humble enough to know how daunting this is, and yet strong enough to operate outside the boundaries of the usual domains.
Accelerate “novel, audacious ways to imagine – and then create – a human future in which we can thrive.” In hard-headed, battle-tested, shippable ways. Involving a world-wide conspiracy of like-minded tribes. Plus a few dreams on very large scales.
How exactly do we design the future? Read what thought leaders have to say in Smart Thoughts. The core of The Guide is The Patterns we have discovered for designing the future. What We Are Reading takes you to the writing that is burgeoning around this revolution. Learn more about what we can imagine and the future we can design - together.
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