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   * lots of everyday materials (razors, love letters, radio station, boxing match in the 30s…)   * lots of everyday materials (razors, love letters, radio station, boxing match in the 30s…)
   * future fabulators: future scenarios and bringing them into everyday life, freedom of exploration   * future fabulators: future scenarios and bringing them into everyday life, freedom of exploration
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 === Scott Smith === === Scott Smith ===
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 === FoAM === === FoAM ===
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   * written notes on [[FoAM at Data Ecologies 2014]]    * written notes on [[FoAM at Data Ecologies 2014]] 
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 === Julian Bleecker === === Julian Bleecker ===
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 Video of the current works at the Near Futures lab: "A Catalog Of An Extraordinary Future When It Becomes An Ordinary Today" Video of the current works at the Near Futures lab: "A Catalog Of An Extraordinary Future When It Becomes An Ordinary Today"
   * Opening your eyes to the world around you - everything becomes an opportunity to interrogated   * Opening your eyes to the world around you - everything becomes an opportunity to interrogated
   * http://nearfuturelaboratory.com/   * http://nearfuturelaboratory.com/
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 +(NOTE by the note taker: i expected to insert a link to the video that was played, as Julian couldn't make it, but it seems the link is private... I'm afraid I didn't //take any notes while the video was playing...)//
  
  
 === Justin Pickard === === Justin Pickard ===
  
-  * in sync, work in progress +{{>https://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/14279282873/in/photostream/}} 
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 +  * "in sync?", work in progress 
  
   * futures field - pretence of objectivity, expertise, de-politicised…   * futures field - pretence of objectivity, expertise, de-politicised…
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 ===summaries, conclusions, digressions...=== ===summaries, conclusions, digressions...===
-  * towards electroltye supliments for the booksprint+ 
 +  * towards electrolyte supplements for the booksprint
   * entry points/rabbitholes and the ethics around disclosure and consent. advocate for compassionate methods   * entry points/rabbitholes and the ethics around disclosure and consent. advocate for compassionate methods
   * from the 'suspension of disbelief' toward the 'active engagement of belief'   * from the 'suspension of disbelief' toward the 'active engagement of belief'
-  * expand on various methods to distil and surface discusions -> harvesting (methophor -> as 'least unpleasant' or 'part of a cycle')+  * expand on various methods to distil and surface discussions -> harvesting (metaphor -> as 'least unpleasant' or 'part of a cycle')
   * weirdness and confusion (intermittent recurring themes)   * weirdness and confusion (intermittent recurring themes)
-  * strucutre <-> vagueness+  * structure <-> vagueness
   * agile methods as potential   * agile methods as potential
   * x.ref 'exploratory forecast'   * x.ref 'exploratory forecast'
-  * ways of addressing processes at various scales. permiculture principles -> multiplicity of techniques. fractal selfsimilarity or storyworlds +  * ways of addressing processes at various scales. permaculture principles -> multiplicity of techniques. fractal selfsimilarity or storyworlds 
-  * references for writing on critical futures (cf. critical theory, richard slaughter, [[integral futures]]) further references to relationship with futures and power +  * references for writing on critical futures (cf. critical theory, richard slaughter and critical futures, [[integral futures]]) further references to relationship with futures and power 
-  * constraints on practice (varieties of domanin specificity)+  * constraints on practice (varieties of domain specificity)
   * escaping the filter bubble -> afrofutures, gulf futures, ASIS futures, etc+   * escaping the filter bubble -> afrofutures, gulf futures, ASIS futures, etc+
-  * "futures and foresight is disolving" time for sharpening tools may be over, seep into other relevant domains+  * "futures and foresight is dissolving" time for sharpening tools may be over, seep into other relevant domains
   * comparative value in refining methods or connecting to other domains?   * comparative value in refining methods or connecting to other domains?
   * "socialisation of awareness"   * "socialisation of awareness"
-  * "walking backwards into the future" (c.f. promethian view / epimethian) +  * "walking backwards into the future" (c.f. Dougald Hine Promethean / Epimethean view ) 
-  * explore intrinstirc sources of motivation rather than relying on extrinsic sources+  * explore intrinsic sources of motivation rather than relying on extrinsic sources
   * "old elements finding new homes"   * "old elements finding new homes"
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 +Booksprint: summary of the seminar, extending discussions, distilling issues
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 +Possible topics to expand in the booksprint: reaching out, the ethics of on-ramps, how to integrate people compassionately, ethnography of experiential futures, actively investing belief in an experience, surfacing stories that live in communities, lead ins and lead outs from a futures experience, weirdness, confusions, structure-vs-antistructure, preciseness vs vagueness, politicisation, literacy, education, impact on people in the long term, harvesting information as a part of a whole lifecycle of people’s engagement in futures, playfulness, enabling situations, call creating, disappointments when a future doesn’t happen, what happens as hope disappears, agility, future as a dynamic complex system rather than a point in time, iteration and adaptation, anti-fragility, exploratory forecasts, a wide range of futures to move away from dystopia, how to teach the processes and methods of futures thinking, issues of scale (permaculture principles, fractals, acupuncture, NNNI), ethics, critical theory of futures, consider positions of priviledge, dissolution and re-absorption of foresight, future of futures, socialisation of futures (of observation, awareness, filtering, synthesizing, storytelling and communication), how can we stitch together foresight and other practices, where you experiment the lab is, what is the motivation, historical perspective (walking backwards into the future), humour, different perspectives and modalities (and everything above) 
  
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