This month at the Regenerative Design Lab, Cohorts 6 and 7 both spent time on line imagining the future.
Using the Three Horizons model, we explored Horizon Three, not as a prediction tool but rather as a canvas for finding shared hopes for the future.
We structured the conversation using a Kalideascope — a tool central to our design teaching at Constructivist. And this makes sense because as designers we are constantly imaging the future. What changes here is that the principal ingredient to the process is our hopes for the future.
A pattern I am spotting is how much common ground emerges in these sessions. Themes of connection, community, stewardship, making and different ways to find meaning emerged. And along side these, lots of examples of different ways that these futures exist in the present, there to be cultivated, encouraged, supported, connected up.
I think most valuable is that people didn’t leave with a single vision of the future but a long list of ideas for experiments, practices and actions.
Over the coming months, the Lab will move into the next phase of the journey: designing experiment sand looking for ways to create transitions to that more hopeful future.