Let me get right down to it: what an energetic and imaginative session on Friday! Here’s the recording of Vandana’s presentation:
and here’s the recording of the collective imaginations from the last third of the session:
Making Climate Great Again
What about India? We were always great, so no worries there.
This coming week’s session is on collective wisdom. I will continue with the ‘Mental Hooks’ theme I introduced in session two and share a few hooks for collective wisdom that we will put into practice during the breakout. The good news is that I am going to lean into your homeworks for the breakout exercise.
Recall that we are the midwives of your collective wisdom ∳∳
First of all, thanks to the 71 of you who submitted your ‘back to the future’ letters. The wordcloud should give you a quick sense for what you have been imagining.
Here’s an anonymised version of the 71 answers. Scan through them please.
There’s an amazing diversity of utopias, dystopias, udyspias and everything in the middle. Take a look at these visions so that you can prepare for the breakout exercise on Tuesday, which I am sharing in advance. Here’s what you’re going to do:
Every breakout room will have a few people who have submitted their visions. Perhaps everyone has done so, but with very high probability at least one person has done so.
(Extra credit: calculate the probability that no one in your breakout has submitted the HW, given the fact that 71 of the 150 people who registered have submitted. Plus note that HW submitters are likely over-represented among session attendees :))
The task of each group will be to arrive at a collective 2030 —> 2020 letter from the group to itself based on the HW samples you have in front of you. More details on Tuesday
I am looking forward to seeing your collective letters!