Futuring in Aotearoa
Futuring in Aotearoa: Stepping out into the unknown Stepping out of the box and into the unknown: Illustration by Loo My name is Yvonne Curtis. Welcome to my inaugural post. I have been involved in futuring, being inspired, frustrated, delighted and impassioned about the discipline, for over 30 years. And, sometimes, I feel all of these concurrently, which makes for interesting times! This stepping out into the unknown is where futuring can really make changes for us as communities and countries, and indeed as a species. It takes courage and time to allow this process to develop, and I have watched, sometimes with despair, as these processes have been shut down prematurely and a shorter planning cycle from a much narrower base determined the outcomes. Where the process is allowed to play out, moving naturally, from a wide scan to a more narrow focus and possible actions, possibilities emerge that literally seem to come from “out of the blue”. R...