Making a New Reality

Since humankind’s earliest days, stories have been used to communicate knowledge, prescribe behavior, form our understanding of the world, and to imagine our futures. The macro-narratives created by our many individual stories become powerful organizing forces to coordinate change. What stories are we telling ourselves about the future? Who is authoring those stories? How will they impact the reality we make?

Kamal Sinclair (Executive Director, Guild of Future Architects) presents key findings from her Ford Foundation commissioned research on furthering equality in emerging media, Making a New Reality, that helped launch a global community of practice working to democratize the imagination of our future. She shares insights on the high stakes of limiting inclusion in the design process of future systems; offers frameworks for leveraging the best practices of co-creation; and discusses how speculative imagination can help unlock human potential to establish an abundance of well-being.