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№ 52 | Speculative Cartography, A Better Catastrophe, Tasting of Tomorrow Cards, The Art of Gathering… Canvas?, and A Playful Explanation of the link Between Physical and Mental Health

Stephen P. Anderson

Stephen P. Anderson

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№ 52 | Speculative Cartography, A Better Catastrophe, Tasting of Tomorrow Cards, The Art of Gathering… Canvas?, and A Playful Explanation of the link Between Physical and Mental Health

Speculative cartography

Ok. Here's an odd (and clever!) kind of ‘thing to think with’—speculative cartography. Specifically, maps of a future earth, after sea levels rise. Pictured below is the “famous 1748 Nolli map of Rome, with 66m of sea level rise.” See dozens more similar prints at Conspiracy of Cartographers.

A Better Catastrophe 

“I Want a Better Catastrophe” is a new (?) kind of flowchart for navigating our climate predicament. Explore on your own, or push play and be guided through with a voiceover.  Now I'm thinking about other kinds of flowcharts we could create using this format… Also, a nice bit of systems thinking going on  here!

Tasting of Tomorrow Cards

More cards! IDEO's Tasting of Tomorrow Cards ask “human-centered questions about the future when designing intelligent products, services, systems, and visions.”

The Art of Gathering… Canvas?

So, one of my many back burner projects has been to turn ideas from Priya Parker's book The Art of Gathering into a toolkit of sorts, for planning my own gatherings. Along these lines, the folks at Griffith University's Centre for Systems Innovation created a playbook and canvas

Inspired by Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering online course, which a team of us completed in March 2023, we have created this playbook. While it’s no replacement for the detail and insight from the course or reading the book of the same name, it combines ideas we learnt with the way we be in our Centre. 

Playful Explanations

I love this playful explanation of the link between physical and mental health…using toys!

**BONUS: Check out this reimagined UNO deck from Shantell Martin, the latest installment of the UNO Artiste series.

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№ 105 | Startup Valley, The Farmer Was Replaced , Five Beliefs (about Community Software), Cartography of Generative AI, When Are We? Game, Square Circle Triangle, Challenging the Pedagogy & Andragogy Distinction, and Two Speeches Worth Your Attention

№ 105 | Startup Valley, The Farmer Was Replaced , Five Beliefs (about Community Software), Cartography of Generative AI, When Are We? Game, Square Circle Triangle, Challenging the Pedagogy & Andragogy Distinction, and Two Speeches Worth Your Attention

Welcome to another curious assemblage of fun and fascinating ‘things to think with’. Or think about. Or… do something with! 🤪 Startup Valley game So what’s it like to launch a startup? Startup Valley Game: Blitzed Edition gives us a taste of that experience, with plenty of humorous quips thrown

By Stephen P. Anderson
№ 103 | ‘At What Cost?’, The Tarot Cards of Tech, Two Visuals to Improve Your Next Talk, The Mind’s Pendulum, Habits of a Systems Thinker Cards, Afrofuturism and the “future past”, and Four Ways Humans Relate to Technology

№ 103 | ‘At What Cost?’, The Tarot Cards of Tech, Two Visuals to Improve Your Next Talk, The Mind’s Pendulum, Habits of a Systems Thinker Cards, Afrofuturism and the “future past”, and Four Ways Humans Relate to Technology

Another dose of playful things to think with. Perhaps a little less playful… And a wee bit more somber and cerebral… But, all good things to think about! ‘At What Cost?’ Here’s your perennial reminder to think about the unintended consequences of the things we design, build, and use.

By Stephen P. Anderson