What do you do when the world changes faster than you can make sense of it?

The Season 3 finale of How We Future features Stanford educators Scott Doorley and Carissa Carter for a conversation about design, technology, and what it actually means to adapt in a moment of runaway change.

Scott and Carissa are the creative and academic leaders behind Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design and the co-authors of Assembling Tomorrow, a book that offers language and tools to design a better future.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Why if you feel NUTS! Or “Never Up To Speed,” you’re not alone.
• What “bothness” looks like when technologies can simultaneously help and harm
• Why speculative fiction and “histories of the future” help us think more clearly about the present
• How playful practices like mapping your monsters lower fear and open better conversations

This finale invites us to slow down just enough to notice the narratives we’ve inherited, question the ones that no longer serve us, and practice designing — not just reacting — inside uncertainty.

Links from the episode;

• Assembling Tomorrow by Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley
• d.school mission
• d.school Design Abilities: “Let’s stop talking about The design process”
• The Secret Language of Maps by Carissa Carter
• Make Space: How To Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration by Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft
• Map the problem space activity
• Scott’s website

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