What We Do

Effective Futures Thinking is an extended process in a custom experience. WHAT OUR WORK TOGETHER LOOKS LIKE Phase 01/ We start engagements exploring your current organization through internal interviews combined with your prior research. What do you (think you) know and how do you know it? What do you think is and will be true but it’s just a hunch (so far)? Phase 02/ Next, we process your thinking and knowledge with rigorous and enjoyable methods. We arrive at a number of possible future scenarios. We “play” with a few interesting ones – designing and making things that immerse your organization in that world, to help them feel what it might be like to inhabit. Your organization keeps all proprietary materials. Phase 03/ Here’s when the greatest value happens. Over an extended period we collaborate, adding our signals-tracking to your evolving goals and outlook. This is your adaptiveness and resilience paying off.

Futures Literacy is mindset training. Enhanced imagination capacities foresee vivid implications that bolster group and organizational sustainability and resilience. In Futures Literacy sessions, teams adopt mind-expanding Futures methods and processes. We introduce ways to address niggling questions about where purposeful efforts might influence a changing complex world. Then we get to the “playing” part – designing and making things that dwell in select scenarios that help the team feel what a scenario might be like. We conduct programs that immerse up to 15 participants in episodic thinking and artifact design from a half day to a week. “Perhaps the most critical challenge is the need for futures literacy in the culture. Take politics and journalism, institutions that inherently deal with the future but that do not have a well-established habit of "rigorous imagining"." Stuart Candy, 2021, for the World Economic Forum

We’re scouts scanning the horizon. We’re anthropological investigators and translators, alchemists and visionaries. We collect signals on the following topics: Urban-Rural Development, The Design of Cities, Circular Economies in Practice, The Future of Belonging, and Creative Industries.

We craft presentations that suit your audience and event needs. We’re comfortable with guesting on podcasts. We also publish! Our most in-demand presentation is FUTURES 101. We explain what it’s all about with vivid, relatable examples and lots of audience interaction. Ask us to comment on futuring in various contexts, the state of Futures Thinking as a field, and possible futures in various domains. "That [presentation] changed how I think about strategy." unprompted comment from a design studio consumer strategist, 2024

For us, Mañanaland is not ‘the land of doing it tomorrow’ but truly is The Land of the Future. Are you in North Central New Mexico? We are, too! Join us in our sandbox for free monthly two-hour Futures Thinking sessions. We deep dive into a different topic in each one. We’re usually in Santa Fe, but occasionally we huddle in Albuquerque or Los Alamos. Sign up on our Contact page for the date/time/place announcements. In the “WRITE” section, look for the drop down menu “Which service?” We bring the games - you bring enthusiasm, signals, and imagination!