What does it mean to imagine a future that is not your own? As foresight practitioners, we are asked to inhabit the hopes, fears, and worldviews of people we may never meet, in places we may never go. This radical exercise in empathy is powerful, but it carries a quiet contradiction: the more we dissolve [...]| Houston Foresight
Insight-led feels like a baseline for how businesses say they operate right now: in particular, design thinking has popularised the idea that to grow or do good things in the world, an insights-led approach is critical. I don’t disagree, having built my career in the market research industry up to now, I love that more| Houston Foresight
We are complex, multilayered individuals, experiencing a constant push and pull between the various versions of ourselves. Call it a quarter-life crisis or just an ongoing cycle in life, but every time I think I’ve figured out who I am and what| Houston Foresight
The Future of Horizon Scanning: Embracing Emergence through Grounded Theory In a world defined by deep uncertainty and accelerating change, identifying signals of change won’t be enough. The future of horizon scanning will lie in Anticipatory Futures Intelligence; measured by how well we can engage with| Houston Foresight
How do we achieve true energy justice? That was one of the many questions that Dartmouth students Megan Hagge, Anna Chabica, Jacob Garland, and Nitin Venkatdas explored as part of a course on energy and the environment taken in the spring of 2023. This video, produced in collaboration with Paul and Denise Pouliot, head speakers […]| Indigenous New Hampshire Collaborative Collective
Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of blog posts written by students in Professor Martin’s NAIS 400: Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of New Hampshire. To learn more about the Native American and Indigenous Studies minor, visit https://cola.unh.edu/interdisciplinary-studies/program/minor/native-american-indigenous-studies By Andrew “Dewey” Bell ‘24 The New Hampshire climate ranges […]| Indigenous New Hampshire Collaborative Collective
