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How do you design a wise space?
On Saturday I went to Australia's first ever coworking conference held in the start-up community space Inspire9. Listening to the talks and speaking with the participants made me think of what makes a...
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Four inspiring thinkers: Abe, Teilhard, Bucky & Barbara
"I read like a starving person hungry for meaning in life. It felt to me like a matter of survival. Soon I discovered the thinkers who gave me the basis of my views on the future. I consider them,...
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SEEKING: Dualism in social media
Often on Twitter we post quotes which resonate with us at that time. But there is often an anti-thesis to a quote, a thought or an insight. And then of course, there's a synthesis of the two.An...
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Futurist as Trickster
All tricksters are on the road. They are the lords of in-between. They are thespirit of the road at dusk. - Lewis HydeLast week I moved from Australia to Sweden so today I somehow feel like I live...
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Five Types of Creative Thinking
Last year I wrote my Master's thesis on what role creative thinking plays when we think about the future. Part of this research was to go through a vast amount of literature on creative thinking.After...
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Super Consciousness and Being about the Future
One of my summer holiday reads was British maverick philosopher Colin Wilson's Super Consciousness. Wilson, now 82, became famous for his book 'The Outsider' which was published in 1956. Since then he...
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Futurist as Interpreter
Hope for the futureA couple of weeks ago I went to a conference / festival called Future Perfect, held in tents and an old inn on a small island in the Stockholm archipelago. In these beautiful...
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The creative process is a land beyond
The creative process is a land beyond time and space.It begins in a magical forest.FORESTTo a child the world is a magical forest. Everything is remarkable, fascinating, and worth exploring. I often...
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A sudden detour into cinema
"But why this sudden detour into cinema? Morin’s research is motivated by his own life experiences. After the death of his mother, the young Morin became an obsessive moviegoer, and developed a...
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Sverige for President
Jag tycker att vi i Sverige har lyckats ganska bra. Visst, det käbblas fram och tillbaks mellan de politiska blocken om detaljer, och det är möjligt att det blivit en vridning mot höger under senare...
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Networked Spiral Dynamics
My last post here was in Swedish and if you don't speak that language it was probably pretty incomprehensible.This post will use a language called Spiral Dynamics and if you are not familiar with that...
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What goes on in the head of a futurist?
Why is self-reflection so painful?This blog post is about a current struggle. It's about integrity. It's about time and energy. It's about money. It's about purpose. It started sometime last year when...
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Aesthetics
Lennart RodheBjörndans1990Marcel DuchampTu m' (detail)1918Mark RothkoDark Brown Gray Orange1963
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Who decides?
While involved in several start-ups, groups and organisations with collaboration as one of the key values in the last years, I've sat through many hours of governance discussions. Holacracy,...
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What is a Superhero Space?
I am launching a new non-profit called Superhero Spaces.Superhero Spaces is a not-for-profit organisation which illuminates and strengthens a global network of “superhero spaces”.Excuse me? What's...
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SEEKING: New metaphors for heroic entrepreneurship
Most futurists like to use models and frameworks to help people make sense of the world. Here follow two metaphors that I use sometimes when I try to communicate foresight. They can also be used for...
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A shift beyond the knowledge society in Sweden?
I read in the Swedish newspapers this morning the angry and desperate reports that Swedish students fall behind in global rankings. The so-called PISA report, which was published this week, shows that...
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A sudden detour into cinema
“But why this sudden detour into cinema? Morin’s research is motivated by his own life experiences. After the death of his mother, the young Morin became an obsessive moviegoer, and developed a...
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Sverige for President
Jag tycker att vi i Sverige har lyckats ganska bra. Visst, det käbblas fram och tillbaks mellan de politiska blocken om detaljer, och det är möjligt att det blivit en vridning mot höger under senare...
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Networked Spiral Dynamics
My last post here was in Swedish and if you don’t speak that language it was probably pretty incomprehensible. This post will use a language called Spiral Dynamics and if you are not familiar with that...
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