What if our creative practices get in the way of purposeful social change? What if we’re – unintentionally – ‘othering’ the future? What if our belief in the power of future action, gets in the way of change today? How can we change our practice to be better in the light of this evidence.

We think of stranded assets as locked in oil and gas commodities. But what if we think about our own assets that are locked in. How can we reclaim them?

Prof Amy Edmondson gave a talk about intelligent failure at the RSA on 26 September. Why we need to pay attention more and be curious. Lessons for our ‘future for work’.

Thinking about the future can be either so scary or seem so futile that we don’t ever do it in meaningful ways. When we look at the world around us, we assume we don’t have the power for change.

Futures tools don’t take these dilemmas away. But they offer us ways of working constructively with them.