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Fuel Your Futurist Imagination: 6 Artistic Visions of the Future
The BBC is running a contest, encouraging people to enter stills or video/animation depicting their personal visions of the future. They kicked off the “What If?” project by inviting six artists from around the world to seed … -
Futurist Friday: Apocalypse for One
Yesterday Stuart Candy, on his Skeptical Futuryst Blog, drew readers’ attention to a dark, elaborate scenario that played out on UK television last year. “Derren Brown: Apocalypse” is a two-part special that Candy … -
A Few Optimistic Futures
I’m working on a couple scenarios on the future of education to share during Museums Advocacy Day training next Monday. This exercise reminded me yet again how easy it is to “go dark” when imagining potential futures. Maybe I’m just a … -
Picturing the Future
I’ve shared a number of scenarios on this blog, mostly in the form of short stories envisioning potential futures. But written scenarios have their limitations. Words are specific—the reader can only build out the story, explore the … -
Crowdsourcing the Annual Meeting Stage Two: Get Out the Vote
The Alliance is trying a lot of new things this year, sometimes using the principles of rapid prototypingto test new ideas and learn from our experiments. Those of you who sew may appreciate the fact that I think of some of these trials … -
CSISOS: Cool Sessions in Search of Speakers
The call for proposals for the AAM 2013 annual meeting closes on Friday, Aug. 24. As I’ve explained in an earlier post, this year AAM is encouraging people to post early drafts of their ideas and refine them with crowdsourced input. As I … -
Catching up with: Tracy Hicks, 2011 CFM Artist Interpreting the Future of Museums
Tracy discussing Helix: Scaffolding #21211 with attendees in Houston. Tracy Hicks was CFM’s 2011 Artist Exploring the Future of Museums. Installed in MuseumExpo at AAM’s 2011 annual meeting in Houston, Tracy’s sculpture and video … -
On Stories, and Authenticity
I just got my copy of the new book Significant Objects documenting a fascinating project exploring the relationship between objects, stories and value. Synopsis: Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker collected inexpensive, tag-sale objects (e.g., a … -
Crowdsourcing the AAM Annual Meeting
Ever wish you had a voice in running the AAM’s annual meeting? Now you do. AAM has opened up the session proposal process to crowdsourced input. You can use the new site to submit a draft session proposal for input from your peers, and to … -
Futurist Friday: Internet Fail
Futurist Friday is a series of occasional posts featuring recommending reading, viewing or listening resources to expand your thinking and fuel your forecasting. When I teach forecasting workshops, I lead participants through the process …
Future Forecasting
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