Building Foresight Capabilities: Introducing Futures Platform’s Foresight Maturity Model
We’ve been thinking a lot about foresight recently. This blog outlines an interesting Foresight Maturity Model.
How can trustees be more adaptive and systemic?
Charities are becoming accustomed to adopting more agile ways of working. But many trustees feel tension between being flexible and ensuring effective oversight. And between more systemic ways of working and traditional models of governance and reporting. So, what do more adaptive and more systemic approaches mean for governance?
Charitable giving reached £15.4bn last year despite drop in donors, CAF reports
CAF’s latest UK Giving Report is out with some challenging news
Overall, the number of people donating, volunteering or sponsoring someone has fallen to the lowest levels recorded since CAF began its research in 2016.
Single-tasking: the power of focusing on one task at a time
…psychiatrist Edward Hallowell defined multitasking as a “mythical activity in which people believe they can perform two or more tasks simultaneously as effectively as one”.
Art for a Better World and Dronotope: The politics of timelines and data visualisation at CRASSH, Cambridge
How can we use data visualisations and timelines self-reflexively to tell more diverse stories about disruptive technologies? In this interactive exhibition, the Centre for Drones and Culture invites the public to explore 3D ‘volumetric’ timelines of drone technology whose stories and histories change dynamically based on what data the user chooses to highlight. Exploring the technology’s development across five strands — war, regulation, technicities, humanitarianism and conservation, and civil and domestic ‘integration’ — these unconventional timeline visualisations encourage open, playful, and pluralistic ways of thinking about and understanding our drone age.
Contingent Agencies
Intriguing example of practice based research.
Contingent Agencies is an artistic research project conceived as an inquiry into the subtle, dynamic, complex and enveloping presences that emerge in given situations for those who inhabit them. These presences are denominated with terms such as “ambiances,” “Stimmungen,” “moods,” or even “places” or “figures.” In this project we favor the words “atmospheres” and “environments.”