Analog Version: What If the Park Dreamed Back?
In this analog Spiral Lab, participants began with billion-year-old rocks as companions, listening to the park as both witness and author. Together, they named griefs and gifts, released patterns of harm, and imagined futures worth inheriting—from truth-telling and repair today, to healing and belonging across generations.
Futures Line: What if the Park Dreamed Back?
What if a park could dream?
At the Our Parks × TEN Baltimore Symposium, we invited participants to listen with the land and imagine Baltimore’s Leakin Park in the year 2075. Their future-voicemails became the first Futures Line recording—a layered soundscape and foresight artifact that carries themes of healing, belonging, and stewardship.
From Input to Interbeing
If regenerative participation is to become a meaningful part of foresight, we must expand our understanding of what foresight practitioners do—and how we show up.
We are not extractors of insights or deliverers of predetermined scenarios. We are gardeners, composters, and stewards of living processes. Our work is less about directing movement and more about cultivating the conditions for emergence, belonging, and transformation.
From Input to Interbeing
Despite good intentions, many public engagement processes remain transactional, time-bound, and symbolic. They ask people to show up, speak up, and then move on. These forms of participation tend to reinforce the illusion that listening has occurred, while leaving little space for transformation or relationship.
Empowering Democratic Decision-Making with COPAL: The Power of Five Finger Consensus
By practicing Five Finger Consensus within their 8-member leadership team, COPAL is embodying the fractal theory that what we do on a small scale reflects and influences the larger scale.
The Importance of Imagination and Visualization in Futures Work
Recently we had the honor of guiding 200 Boys and Girls Club leaders through a transformative experience, helping them to imagine a workday in 2044.
Building Connections through Digital Equity BINGO: A Game for Learning and Networking
Recently, we had the opportunity to create a unique Digital Equity BINGO game for the Baltimore City Office of Broadband and Digital Equity (BDE), a division of the Baltimore City Office of Information and Technology (BCIT).