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 ==== Future preparedness Scrapbook ====
-Historic, recent and contemporary manifestations of [[future_preparedness]] and related inspirations...
+Historic, recent and contemporary manifestations of [[future_preparedness]] and related fields.
-==== On fragility and resilience ====
+==== A few guidelines ====
-  * Notes from Yoi Ito's Resiliency, Risk, and a [[a_good_compass|Good Compass]]: Tools for the Coming Chaos
+  * Notes from Joi Ito's Resiliency, Risk, and a [[a_good_compass|Good Compass]]: Tools for the Coming Chaos
   * [[taleb_s_rules|Taleb's Rules]]: A number of guidelines to create systems which are less fragile during exposure to black swan events (aka taleb robustness)
+  * [[http://www.holmgren.com.au/DLFiles/PDFs/Essence_of_PC_eBook.pdf|Permaculture Design Principles]] in pdf
+  * [[:/future_fabulators/vuca|VUCA]] or volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of general conditions and situations.
+==== Arts & Disaster Relief ====
+  * [[http://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/|Burners without borders]]: "BWB promotes activities around the globe that support a community's inherent capacity to thrive by encouraging innovative approaches to disaster relief and grassroots initiatives that make a positive impact.  (...) Following the 2005 Burning Man event, several participants headed south into the Hurricane Katrina disaster area to help people rebuild their devastated communities. What does this look like? The important thing is to create collaborations and bring as much creativity and fun to the project as possible."
+  * [[http://architectureforhumanity.org/|Architecture for Humanity]]: "We are a leader in creating responses to disaster reconstruction that go beyond the “one and done” projects that leave communities vulnerable to future crises. Instead, we focus on creating long-term solutions in partnership with the affected communities."
+  * [[http://hexayurt.com/|Hexayurts]] and [[http://files.howtolivewiki.com/hexayurt_in_haiti_v1.1.pdf|Hexayurts for disaster relief
+  * [[http://edgeryders.eu/|EdgeRyders]]: "we aspire to put our time and effort into solving the global societal, economic, environmental, security and energy problems threatening Europe and humanity in general"
 ==== NNNI ====
-<blockquote>Nista Nas Ne smije Iznenaditi: Živimo kao da će vječno biti mir, a pripremajmo se kao da će sutra rat
+<blockquote>Nista Nas Ne smije Iznenaditi: Živimo kao da će vječno biti mir, a pripremajmo se kao da će sutra rat. //(Transl. Live as if the peace is eternal, prepare as if the war will start tomorrow)//
--- Tito</blockquote>
+-- Josip Broz Tito</blockquote>
   * [[::nnni|Nista Nas Ne smije Iznenaditi]] 'Nothing can surprise us' - cit /country wide catastrophe exercises organised by ONO i DSZ (Opstenarodna odbrana i drustvena samozastita, translation: 'Nation wide defence and social self protection committee') for the military, police, health system, but also civilians (including children) in former Yugoslavia.
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 ==== Disaster studies ====
-The website of BOS/FIB (Brusselse Onafhankelijke Strijdkrachten/ Forces Indépendantes Bruxelloises) creating
+  * [[http://theintelhub.com/2012/10/31/military-holds-mock-zombie-apocalypse-drill-on-halloween-in-populated-area/|Zombie Apocalypse]] for the US Military organised by Halo Corp.
-photographic, fictional war situations if Belgium would engage in a civil war.
-They proclame to be ready and defend the Brusseleer and Brussels as an independent area with dutch-speaking and
+<blockquote>"This is a very real exercise, this is not some type of big costume party," said Brad Barker, president of Halo Corp, a security firm hosting the Oct. 31 training demonstration during the summit at a 44-acre Paradise Point Resort island on a San Diego bay. "Everything that will be simulated at this event has already happened, it just hasn't happened all at once on the same night. But the training is very real, it just happens to be the bad guys we're having a little fun with."</blockquote>
-french-speaking multicultural ethnicities.
+More in [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/zombie-apocalypse-trainining-military-halo-corp-_n_2036996.html| this article ]] from Huffington Post
+  * [[http://futuryst.blogspot.be/2007/05/future-shock-hits-san-francisco.html|Guerilla Futures by the Red Cross]]
+<blockquote>The last statistics out of the USGS predict that there is a 62 percent chance that a catastrophic earthquake will hit the Bay Area in the next 30 years—leaving an estimated 3,400 dead, 63,000 seriously injured, and over 400,000 people homeless. These statistics and the staggering realization that only a small percentage of Bay Area residents are actually prepared for an emergency prompted the ARCBA to focus on an even edgier campaign that would shock, force people to think, and then take action to get prepared.</blockquote>
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+  * [[http://www.bosfib.be/home.php|BOS/FIB]] (Brusselse Onafhankelijke Strijdkrachten/ Forces Indépendantes Bruxelloises) creating photographic, fictional war situations if Belgium would engage in a civil war. They proclaim to be ready and defend the Brusseleer and Brussels as an independent area with dutch-speaking and french-speaking multicultural ethnicities.
-http://www.bosfib.be/home.php
 ==== Eucatastrophe ====
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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucatastrophe
-The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous “turn” (for there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially 'escapist', nor 'fugitive'. In its fairy-tale—or otherworld—setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace...
+<blockquote>The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous “turn” (for there is no true end to any fairy-tale): this joy, which is one of the things which fairy-stories can produce supremely well, is not essentially 'escapist', nor 'fugitive'. In its fairy-tale—or otherworld—setting, it is a sudden and miraculous grace...</blockquote>
 http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Eucatastrophe
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 ==== Fragility and Anti Fragility ====
-If we take a step back and more generally consider the issue of partitioned versus connected systems, partitioned systems are more stable, and connected systems are both more vulnerable and have more opportunities for collective action. Vulnerability (fragility) is connectivity without responsiveness. Responsiveness enables connectivity to lead to opportunity. If collective action can be employed to address threats, or to take advantage of opportunities, then the vulnerability can be mitigated and outweighed by the benefits. This is the basic relationship between the idea of sensitivity as we described it and your concept of [[fragilty_and_antifragility|antifragility]]. –Yaneer Bar-Yam
+<blockquote>If we take a step back and more generally consider the issue of partitioned versus connected systems, partitioned systems are more stable, and connected systems are both more vulnerable and have more opportunities for collective action. Vulnerability (fragility) is connectivity without responsiveness. Responsiveness enables connectivity to lead to opportunity. If collective action can be employed to address threats, or to take advantage of opportunities, then the vulnerability can be mitigated and outweighed by the benefits. This is the basic relationship between the idea of sensitivity as we described it and your concept of [[:fragility_and_antifragility|antifragility]]. –Yaneer Bar-Yam</blockquote>
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 [[survivalist_green|Survivalist Green]]: notes about how surviving doesn't have to be so bad
-"The future is a process, not a theme park."- Bruce Sterling in Tomorrow Now
+"The future is a process, not a theme park."- Bruce Sterling quoted from: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//006811.html
-  * http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//006811.html
 ==== Mapping ====
-  * Smart Places and Spatial Interventions http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//004292.html
+Smart Places and Spatial Interventions http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//004292.html
 ==== Critical Design ====
-Critical Design, takes a critical theory based approach to design. Popularized by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby through their firm, Dunne & Raby. Critical design uses designed artifacts as an embodied critique or commentary on consumer culture. Both the designed artifact (and subsequent use) and the process of designing such an artifact causes reflection on existing values, mores, and practices in a culture.
+<blockquote>Critical Design, takes a critical theory based approach to design. Popularized by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby through their firm, Dunne & Raby. Critical design uses designed artifacts as an embodied critique or commentary on consumer culture. Both the designed artifact (and subsequent use) and the process of designing such an artifact causes reflection on existing values, mores, and practices in a culture.
-A critical design will often challenge its audience's preconceptions and expectations thereby provoking new ways of thinking about the object, its use, and the surrounding environment. Critical Designers generally believe design that provokes, inspires, makes us think, and questions fundamental assumptions can make a valuable contribution to debates about the role technology plays in everyday life.
+A critical design will often challenge its audience's preconceptions and expectations thereby provoking new ways of thinking about the object, its use, and the surrounding environment. Critical Designers generally believe design that provokes, inspires, makes us think, and questions fundamental assumptions can make a valuable contribution to debates about the role technology plays in everyday life.</blockquote>
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_design
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 ==== Fiction as forecasting ====
-Speculative, science, design fiction - they could all be seen as ways of exploring the probable and improbable futures:
+Speculative, science, design fiction - ways of exploring the probable and improbable futures:
+<blockquote>Speculative literature is a catch-all term meant to inclusively span the breadth of fantastic literature, encompassing literature ranging from hard science fiction to epic fantasy to ghost stories to horror to folk and fairy tales to slipstream to magical realism to modern myth-making and more.</blockquote>
-Speculative literature is a catch-all term meant to inclusively span the breadth of fantastic literature, encompassing literature ranging from hard science fiction to epic fantasy to ghost stories to horror to folk and fairy tales to slipstream to magical realism to modern myth-making  and more.
   * http://www.speculativeliterature.org/
   * http://www.squidoo.com/speculativefiction
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 Speculative Design for a [[jesusautobot]] from Theun Karelse
+==== Reading notes on indigenous research ====
+Notes collected by Cocky Eek:
+  * I think it's important that the elder didn't just tell them the relationship between the mud and the fish, but took them to a place where they could discover that relationship for themselves. That is what relationality and relation accountability are all about.
+  * In an indigenous ontology, reality is the relationship that one has with the truth (rather than the truth being something that is 'out there' or external. Reality is not an object, but a process of relationships
+  * In indigenous research, knowledge is relational. It is not just interpersonal relationships, not just with the research subjects, but its' a relationship with all of creation. It is with the cosmos, the animals, the plants and with the earth that we share this knowledge.