Beyond the Game: Exploring Future Worlds with Dreams and Disruptions
Reflecting on my keynote at this year's RSD12 Relating Systemic Design Symposium (unfortunately, we failed to record the proceedings), I'm drawn back to the profound insights and experiences shared over the years through the Dreams and Disruptions Game. This imagination-based, scenario-building card game has transformed into a vital tool for some in exploring alternative future worlds. Since its inception in
Reframing the Futures of Smart Cities in a Post-Pandemic World
The “Smart Cities” movement, an intellectual activity focused on better-employing technology into city operations while cutting operational costs and simultaneously improving citizen satisfaction, failed to achieve expectations set by industry in the early 2000s.By 2020, many industry leaders believed that the movement was almost overcome due to “death by 1000 pilots.” Then came Covid-19.