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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

01 Sep 2023 — 2 min read

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.

№ 107 | Reimagining the Now, Surfacing Worldviews of Change, Characteristics of SenseMaking (Illustrated), The Authoritarian Stack, Wheels of Privilege / Power—Remixed!, Four Leadership Modes

Back again, with even more playful things to think with, and think about. Last issue, I promised more card decks in this edition of Thinking Things. So, more card decks it is! Reimaging the Now card deck The Reimagining the Now card deck was created “to highlight how existing technological

№ 106 | AI Design Kit, Ladder Bridge Window, Four Ways to Counter Narratives of AI Inevitability, BASIC Framework, Repicturing the Double Diamond, Metadesign For Murph, and A Model for the Many Variations of Visual Thinking

Without intending to… this issue of Thinking Things turned into the “frameworks to think with” issue. No card decks in this roundup — next time! AI Design Kit Is this a framework? Is it a toolkit? Whatever label you use, the AI Design Kit looks like a useful vocabulary for thinking

№ 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

№ 104 | Thinking with Card, Visualicious Recipes, Zwicky Box, “Justing vs Butting”, AI Prompt Deck, and Gathering Design Strategies

Even MORE playful things to think with and think about. But first… a special announcement: 🎉 🗓️I’m beyond thrilled to be presenting at the upcoming Sketch Your Mind Conference (October 13-17). It’s online. It’s free. And, it has an amazing lineup, including a lot of folks I’ve